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List:       licq-main
Subject:    Re: [Licq-main] Re: invisible bug
From:       Tani Hosokawa <unknown () riverstyx ! net>
Date:       2000-03-26 20:42:57
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Maybe this calls for an additional user status, like... "unauthorized ghost".
There could even be a more aggressive ghost probe that connects to a user's
last known IP when they go "offline".  Good for stalkers and the paranoid :)

On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 09:50:55PM +0200, Dirk A. Mueller wrote:
> On Son, 26 Mär 2000, Tim Terlegård wrote:
> 
> > If Spove goes offline, I will never notice, he will always be online for
> > me.
> 
> Right. That's because the server doesn't send us the offline status update,
> so we won't notice. 
> 
> > Is this proper behaviour?
> 
> Well. The way to make it more intuitive would be to ignore the TCP status
> if the user is reported as offline by the server. 
> 
> on the other side, you would never notice if an invisible user requests your
> away response and I think there are enough users who like this "bug" ;-)
> 
> Graham?
> 
> 
> Dirk
> 
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tani hosokawa
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