Busy, or not

[Daniel Atallah]

2008/3/30 Ashley Lee Martin <ashleyleem84 at yahoo.com>:
>
>  Hello.
>
>  It seems that people who try to message me can see whether I am at my PC by
> "busy...not busy" notices, even though my status might be "do not disturb".
> Is there some way I can prevent people from seeing whether I am working on
> my PC?

I'm not sure what "busy...not busy" notices are, but it sounds like
you might want to set the "Report idle time" preference (in the
"Status / Idle" tab) to "Never" to avoid your interaction with the PC
from having a noticeable effect to others.

-D