Shoutbox

I saw quite alot of variants on the advanced auto-reply subject in this thread, almost forcing it to turn into a plug-in... I was wondering if it couldn't just simply be started off with something like sending a different message to different contacts. I'm pretty sure that is very well possible, for you can select the people that are allowed to receive it and the people that aren't... that shouldn't be too much of a problem, should it? and on top of it: it would be very useful. imo.