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Originally posted by MrTaco
Away means they're still signed in, but not around. Might not even be in the house. Could be gone for hours. Brb, they're still around. Might be going to the toilet, off to check something elsewhere in the house. Even doing something else, could have intermittent returns to the computer.
So again when you are at the toilet, somewhere else in the house, etc that is not away? You are not away from your computer?
Away could be BRB
and BRB means away.
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Originally posted by MrTaco
I guess Out to Lunch is similar enough to BRB to disappear. Also implies a relatively short absence
You make your food in a "relatively short absence"? Must taste real shitty because good food takes time to prepare, elaborate, cook and serve.
When you are Out to Lunch you are Away
and when you are Away it could be that you are Out to Lunch
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Originally posted by MrTaco
On the phone, again that's different. That means you've got someone pulling you away from the computer to talk to you, and you generally won't be able to say anything til you get back from it.
In the year 2009, we have a device called a cell phone. Usually people that want to contact me directly call me on this device. It is wireless so I can be Away on my toilet talking to someone, Away in my kitchen cooking dinner talking to someone, Away in the yard moving the lawn talking, hell even Away or Busy on my PC talking to someone.
Or are you one of those people that women are right about: Can't do more than one thing at once?
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Originally posted by MrTaco
The fact of the matter is, some people use the status to let people know what they're doing
And you really think people give a shit what you are doing? They look if you are Away or Busy to talk to you (hell there are people that are Busy/Away 365 days a year.)
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Originally posted by MrTaco
But then, what would I know. I'm still using 7.0 
Exactly. Who the hell uses 7.0? And if its because WLM is bloated (I laugh everytime I hear that)
- Use A-Patch
- Use Pidgin
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Originally posted by James Potter
As far as I am concerned, there is no possible way to add options/features to the actual Messenger client. In this case, the statuses and their functions. (CookieRevised could help elabourate further on this subject...)
As to the rest of the whole arguement. Give up. There is no work-around for it except for Plus!'s custom statuses. We cannot do a "script" or an "add-on" or an application that would add these options back. However, what can be done is for Plus! to add the missing statuses (as personalised statuses, of course...) to the status-list by default. However, I doubt that this would happen now. It might happen at a later time, though. If Patchou finds it useful, of course.
This is not about the client. Its about the protocol.
And yes, Plus! could send the status signals but (again) WLM9 could not understand them unless Plus! was also installed (eg. it would require Plus! on both ends to work).
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
I find the suggestion far from stupid.
There was no _real_ reason to remove those statusses in the new WLM. Simplicity? maybe, but as with many things, if you personally don't have a use for it then don't use it. Many other people shouldn't be 'punished' for something which 'the majority' doesn't use that much. In fact, there would be a whole bunch of other stuff which is not used much by the majority which could have been removed. And gaining a few new things in its place (like animated display pictures) shouldn't be a reason either. It also didn't block any further development for other stuff either. So in the end, no, no reason to remove it.
It is correct that not _everybody_ had a use for those extra statusses, but that does not mean _nobody_ had a use for it!!! This is also not somethng which can be explained by 'changes happen' and/or 'keeping up with the future'. This is plain and simple removing of features without any real reason, imho.
I use( d) BRB all the time! And find that there is a BIG difference between BRB and the standard AWAY. Hence, I would very much like to see at least the BRB status coming back.
Thank god for Plus! being there which fills this status-gap a bit...
As for his petition. Only having 17 or so people who have signed that petition does not mean that there aren't any people who want it back, blessedguy. It simply means that the site where this petition is found, hasn't been visited too much and isn't very well known. EDIT: Going from 17 sigs to almost twice that much in like 30 minutes after this thread has been brought back to the latest posts page, proofs this point also...
And here comes the Cookie out the cookie jar (why havent I made that joke against Cookie is beyond me
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This isnt a punishment...It is simplifing things. Why have 3 cables when with 2 you can do the exact same thing?
And again I fail to see the difference between BRB and Away.
Away - Im not at my computer. I can come back in 10 seconds or 10 hours.
BRB - Im not at my computer. Ill come back.
People used BRB as Away. You can honestly tell me that you havent seen one person as BRB for more than 5 minutes? People use BRB to get out of their house, get in their car, drive to their local store, pick up some milk and go back to their house. That is not BRB. Very few people actually truely use BRB to its meaning. Using BRB (which again you can use Away because you are Away) would be taking a piss with a bathroom that is at most 10-15 steps from you and coming back without getting sidetracked with something on TV.
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