Shoutbox

MSN Messenger actually has 2 kinds of "Away" status. One is when the status is set manually, the other is when you're inactive for a certain period of time. With a normal version of the client, you can't tell the difference, but as raceprouk said, minor reshacks let you change the label of one of the "away" types with "Idle" (actually, any 4 letter word could fit, so you could potentially call it "Zzzz" or something like that). Since "Idle" is not a standard status, you can't select it from the sign-in dropdown.