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I've noticed somethin funny with a few of my contacts..... if someone can enlighten me as to why this is happening it'll be great.

These contacts sometimes sign-in as 'Away Idle', and then after a minute or two change their status to 'Online'.

I know for a fact that these people did not previously sign out due to a connection problem or other reason which made msn sign out automatically (cuz i know that if this happens while the contact is at 'Away Idle' status, he/she will sign back in as 'Away Idle' when the connection is back and msn signs in automatically again).

Since you can't select 'sign-in as Away Idle' I'm really confused as to why this is happening....

cheers

the are using apatch?

i know that poblem/bug/or something else... i had that a few times when i signed in i was "offline" but ichatted with my contacts who told to me i was not online... a few minutes later i was online...

No, I don't think the users concerned use a patch.

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Originally posted by philsamsharp
I've noticed somethin funny with a few of my contacts..... if someone can enlighten me as to why this is happening it'll be great.

These contacts sometimes sign-in as 'Away Idle', and then after a minute or two change their status to 'Online'.

I know for a fact that these people did not previously sign out due to a connection problem or other reason which made msn sign out automatically (cuz i know that if this happens while the contact is at 'Away Idle' status, he/she will sign back in as 'Away Idle' when the connection is back and msn signs in automatically again).

Since you can't select 'sign-in as Away Idle' I'm really confused as to why this is happening....

cheers

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This is simple, if u use ur brains.
If u appear offline and leave ur computer for 5 mins ur status automaticly chages to away/idle(as per ur preference).

Actually, this could be a problem with the servers, although it may easily be a bug

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Originally posted by Reaper
Actually, this could be a problem with the servers, although it may easily be a bug

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I don't think it could be a problem with server cuz even i left my computer idle while appearing offline. When I came back my status was 'Idle'

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Originally posted by GHOST OF DA AGES

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Originally posted by Reaper
Actually, this could be a problem with the servers, although it may easily be a bug

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I don't think it could be a problem with server cuz even i left my computer idle while appearing offline. When I came back my status was 'Idle'

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Exactly.

in relation to my original queston I don't think it's a case of the user having set 'appear offline' and then switching back later on.

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Originally posted by philsamsharp
in relation to my original queston I don't think it's a case of the user having set 'appear offline' and then switching back later on.

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Thats the only way 1 may sign in as idle.