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Note: This hack works with 2.2.7 *and* 2.2.6!

This hack is a re-release of "Away" message for users by bira - now it works with vB 2.2.6/2.2.7. (He/She didn't visit this board since the beginning of 2001 and didn't react to PM and mail, too; I hope this re-release is fine with him/her.) In addition to changing the instructions to make them valid for 2.2.6/2.2.7, other errors in the original installer were fixed. All I did was compiling the new text-based installer; code was kindly provided by Boofo, talon3dhq and Birdie501.

Now I am going to quote what bira told us about her hack:

[QUOTE]Hi,

This is something that is common in IRC - /me is away

In BBs, a user is either online or offline (or invisible).

But, on my Bulletin Board, the folks created such a community that every time someone goes on a holiday or goes offline for a while, he/she posts a new thread to annouce they're 'away.

So, I wrote a hack allowing a user to change his/her status to "away", including a return date and an away reason which will show up in their profile.

Likewise, the online/offline icon in postbit and buddy list will change to an away icon (a very faded version of the 'offline' one).