Re: Text messaging...
Elektron <elektron_rc5-FFYn/[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.fire.general |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 17 Feb, 2004, at 19:22, James Coward wrote: > --- Graham Booker <[email protected]> wrote: >> Interesting suggestion... Since I am the developer for AIM, I know >> this can be added quite simply. >> >> Just after the latest build was made, I changed AIM to allow >> messaging >> offline buddies. This came after I figured out how to REALLY do >> invisible on AIM (You still see who is online). >> >> The question I want to propose to the list is should Fire make SMS >> messaging users show up as always online, or not (since they aren't >> really a buddy)? > > > The way I see it is this: if it's not a real buddy, and there's no way > of knowing if the user is on at the moment, then, don't worry about > either. Let text addresses present themselves as a neutral status of > some sort. Perhaps identify somewhere subtle that the number may or > may not be online. I think an alert message (with a checkable box to > make it not return), that appears before sending a message, might be > good enough. I hate fire bugging me when I send offline messages. I can be reasonably sure that the person will get the message eventually anyway. - Purr ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ Fire-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fire-talk Have a question? Please read the Fire Frequently Asked Questions: http://fire.sourceforge.net/faq.shtml