What's so dignifying about a response, anyway?

[Peegee]

Bring back b!

[escobert]

If I leave my computer 99.9% oif the time i put a away thingy up. not that anyone beside PP IMs me anyways

[The Man]

Originally posted by Del Murder
The Help Forum should be renamed the Guu Forum.

Yes.

If I forget to put an away message up when I leave, Trillian automatically marks me as away after about five minutes. It's handy.

I can understand why not getting a response when someone's not marked as away, that could be upsetting, but it's a bit ridiculous to expect someone to do respond immediately, even though it's "instant" messaging. People have to leave the computer for a couple of minutes and can't be arsed putting up away messages (lots of people do that), or they take a long time deciding what they're going to say and/or write a lot each time they send an IM so it takes them lots of time to type it (Kishi does that, or at least did the last time I had a serious conversation with him; I'm sure there's other people who do that, too, but none of them stand out as much in my mind). It's all good. People seriously do need to chill out some.

If I'm having too many IM convos going on at once to do anything with any of them (a common occurrence), I'll tell people that. They usually understand. The ones who don't usually end up blocked.