how not to be idle being idle @ chat servers??

It often happens that we donot want to chat with ppl who's status is idle and moreover the intelligent server do not show up such names in the chat list. In corollary , we could miss out one's attention because we could be busy with office works or more likely other tabs ;)

Well, this small ,simple trick has helped me many a times not to miss out some great news .


Chat servers have a timeout period after which they switch the state to idle.Eg gmail does it after 12-14 mins.

The trick is to use their auto saving capability for our advantage. Keep open a draft or a compose dialog and put the cursor focus in the TO: field placeholder. The server thinks that we are doing something and does not put us into idle state.


asht Ashte and u never die :)