[Pidgin] #11700: IRC contacts appearing offline when they are online.

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#11700: IRC contacts appearing offline when they are online.
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 Reporter:  xeian   |     Owner:  elb  
     Type:  defect  |    Status:  new  
Component:  IRC     |   Version:  2.6.6
 Keywords:          |  
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 Possibly related to #8331, but for IRC. Repro steps are not consistent,
 but this is how it usually goes:

 1. Add contact to list (either by right-clicking on them in the channel
 users list and selecting "Add", or using the "Add" menu option in a PM
 window), specifying a group to place them in.

 2. New contact will appear online in list briefly.

 3. Some seconds later (5-10 usually), they will go offline again.

 ISSUE: Contacts will appear offline in the contact list even when they are
 online (sometimes they will appear online briefly for a few seconds
 first). I am unable to PM them even if I double-click their name in a
 shared channel. I have no trouble with the same users under different
 nicks. It does not affect every contact - it's about a quarter to a third
 of the contacts on my list.

 This occurs in different ways. When this first started happening, about a
 week ago, contacts who had been on my list for weeks suddenly started
 going offline when I was in the middle of PM-ing them. I was using 2.5.7
 when it started happening, and have just updated to 2.6.6 (and it's still
 occurring).

 I'm running Pidgin 2.6.6 on Windows XP with SP2, and a total of 8 chat
 rooms (all gathered in a single group), and 55 individual contacts (split
 into three groups).

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