Greetings Tanya,
This is normal, both a contacts' personal message and display name is retained when they go
offline.
So if they show as offline, they're offline.
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"Tanya" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> One of my contacts informs me that she is now shutting her computer down at
> night, however, I've noticed that her "away message", i.e., fixing dinner -
> whatever -is still showing up on my computer. How is this possible? My
> guess is she's not really shutting her system down. Any comments? Thanks!