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October 23, 2004 at 10:14 am
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quote: quote:if a person hasn’t typed a thing on Yahoo Messenger but he/she is using another program (say Outlook Express or ICQ or PowerPoint)
thay would not show as idle
It should be noted that with the newest Yahoo Messenger there is a bug that affects win9x/WinME users. You will be set to idle by the Messenger unless you’re actually using it. Having it minimized while doing something else like web-browsing will still set you to idle on those OS’s.