Re: Text messaging...

Elektron <elektron_rc5-FFYn/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.fire.general
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



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