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1. Aaron Toponce Internet Relay Chat

   !irc has a working mechanism for managing your online status through '/away'. please don't use a different nick or public notice. thx.

   about 7 months ago from api
   • ralesk

     @eightyeight Most clients only show someone's away state on request, if at all. I think you have to expicitly whois to get it.

     about 7 months ago
   • ralesk

     @eightyeight There's no automatic alerting mechanism, IRC being a request-reply system, so it's not possible to do it right either.

     about 7 months ago
   • Aaron Toponce ralesk

     @ralesk yes, but there is a right way. it's '/away message' and '/whois user'. anything else is just unnecessary

     about 7 months ago
   • ralesk

     @eightyeight Having to manually /whois is not right. Especially these days when many IRC users are not adept IRC users aware of /whois.

     about 7 months ago
   • ralesk

     @eightyeight So, it would be great, if it were possible to know automatically, whether someone is away. IIRC the protocol can't do that.

     about 7 months ago
   • Aaron Toponce ralesk

     @ralesk well, some clients, esp. gui, query the server automatically for status updates. #xchat is one such client.

     about 7 months ago