re-enabling? Feature request

[William Morris]

Yeah, you're missing something. Apparently you've never learned how to
think things through.

That's a whole lot of sarcastic (and dare I say, unnecessary and unhelpful)
copying and pasting; you made your point after the first one. Do you
suppose I would request the feature if that's actually how it worked?

The auto-login happens only on start-up. If I leave a computer running at
both work and home and want to switch between them, then, yes, I have to go
through the step of actively taking control at that location. Since the
home computer is off while at the office, but the office is on 24/7, your
scenario as written is not applicable.

Go back to vo-tech, junior, and learn how to function in the real world.



On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Dave Warren <lists at hireahit.com> wrote:

> 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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> Dave Warren
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