[OTR-dev] Re: Pidgin plugin sends and parses HTML

[Paul Wouters]

On Wed, 14 May 2008, Scott Ellis wrote:

> > It's not mandatory.  It didn't exist in the first version of the
> > protocol.  It's just a hint to the other side that you've gone away, and
> > they're free to deallocate a few resources (and forget the remaining one
> > or two keys).
>
>
> In previous discussions about this (too long ago for me to remember who was
> involved, sorry), I commented that I'd tried to resolve the issue by
> watching user status.

Which OTR messed up as it is, because automatic replies to OTR requests make
it appear the user is no longer idle, while in fact, the user still is.

Paul
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