Before I saw Elias's comment, I was going to ask if this is still possible in the official MSN client. However, with Elias's comment, I'm all-but-positive I know what is happening:
In MSN, the notification server handles status and sets up referrals for new conversations. The switchboard servers actually manage the conversations. If you open a conversation, you'll be able to continue talking on it even if the notification server goes down, but you can't open a new one. This is the same thing that's happening here. The reason that it only works for 1 minute is that the official client times out conversations in 1 minute. That's why we had to remove the "XYZ has closed the conversation window." notices. I'm rejecting this as an invalid bug report. If you can confirm that it's possible to do what you've described in the official MSN client (or really, any other client, I suppose), then we can probably mark this confirmed. ** Changed in: gaim (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected -- I see dead people (aka talk with people which appears offline on msn) doesn't work anymore on gaim https://launchpad.net/bugs/68786 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs