re-enabling? Feature request

[Dave Warren]

On 2/27/2013 07:44, William Morris wrote:
> I use Pidgin both at home and at the office. When I log on after being 
> on at either place, I have to re-enable the account. Stupid, really, 
> just a single click, but bothersome all the same. I would really love 
> it if Pidgin would just connect and move on - Yahoo! Messenger does 
> this, and it's really the only feature I miss.

Assuming that Yahoo doesn't allow multiple clients to connect at once, 
what would you expect to happen when you leave pidgin connected at the 
office and then login at home?

I'd guess that what would happen would be this: Your pidgin at home 
would connect, and it would disconnect you at your office. Next, your 
pidgin at the office would connect, and it would disconnect you at home. 
Your pidgin at home would connect, and it would disconnect you at your 
office. Next, your pidgin at the office would connect, and it would 
disconnect you at home. Your pidgin at home would connect, and it would 
disconnect you at your office. Next, your pidgin at the office would 
connect, and it would disconnect you at home. Your pidgin at home would 
connect, and it would disconnect you at your office. Next, your pidgin 
at the office would connect, and it would disconnect you at home. Your 
pidgin at home would connect, and it would disconnect you at your 
office. Next, your pidgin at the office would connect, and it would 
disconnect you at home. Your pidgin at home would connect, and it would 
disconnect you at your office. Next, your pidgin at the office would 
connect, and it would disconnect you at home.

Then Yahoo would disable your entire account for abuse, and you'd be 
back here, wondering why that happened.

Am I missing something about how your change would work?

Speaking as a user, I'd rather you learn to log off so that if I try to 
IM you a few minutes before you get into the office, I know that you're 
not online, rather than wondering why you aren't responding to my IM for 
hours. But that's just me.

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