Shoutbox

If i appear offline.... on the contact clean up list will i appear as online??or recently having been logged in?

If you're appearing offline, then they will only see you as offline.  Therefore, the Plus! clean-up list at their end will assume you are actually offline and say you recently logged in.

so if i havent logged on for 3 days but appeared offline it will show as i havent logged in for 3 days?

Effectively, yes.