Appearing as disconnected when adding a MSN contact

[anonymous]

When adding a MSN contact, the othersee you as disconnected. For fixing this, normally I say him to delete me as contact and adding me again, then I accept him and all ok. This is annoying with people that have no clue about computers (and it's a sci-fi thing for them removing and adding a contact).

This is an old problem, even occours actually in testing.bitlbee.org

[wilmer]

Hmm, maybe you actually just missed their auth. request. Good thing with MSN is, every time you reconnect, the request will just come back. Maybe the request was even still in your qlist. It can't just disappear. That's one thing the MSN people did *really* well, IMHO. Even though it leaves the whole of being able to see who has you in your list (which is, obviously, very interesting to some low-lifes).

If it isn't that simple, feel free to reopen this.