Shoutbox

I'm thinking more by the lines of miranda (http://www.miranda-im.org/)
With that IM, we can customize the whole hide-thing. Hide contacts that appear away, etc.. It wouldn't be so hard to add that to the great messenger plus? Or..?

Their option-screen is like this:

"Hide offline" means to hide:
Offline, Online, Away, NA, occupied, Out to lunch etc..

And by hide, I'm not thinking of MSN's stupid grouping options.
But I'd see potential in getting this added. User-defined.