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a detour into offline messages...

A key feature that I recently added to the collaboration API (about 10 days ago) is an offline messaging capability. If you are a user of yahoo messenger you know how this works, when you are offline users are able to still open an IM window and send a message that you can then read when you log back into the system. I wanted to perform something like this since I finished the main implementation of the collaboration API almost a year and a half ago but I pushed it back , now that I am near the end I realized the 3 days it would take to code it was well worth the potential benefit it would bring to the users (and indirectly to the company!) The offline messaging allows each User to control who can send them offline messages, unlike the yahoo thick client in which I periodically receive spam messages from users who are not on my contacts list. In my implementation, a User has 4 options that other Users can be given with regard to offline messages: Offline messages disabled Contacts offl...