pidgin: buddies offline unless they send me a message

[Daniel Atallah]

2008/5/29 Paul Coene <drool at knology.net>:
> Some buddies that I add show as offline and do not allow messages to be
> sent, until they have sent me a message.  Very odd.  Each one seems to fix
> itself when they send me a message and this "fix" endures restarts.
> However, any new buddy I add, I can never instigate a conversation, they
> show offline.

Which protocol?

-D