question : online contact display

hi

my question is when a contact is online, sometimes one sees one or two
hyphens next to the contact name on the list. what does that represent?

Greetings,

Well the text after the - is the personal status message.

If there's multiple -'s, especially if they're blank, it's usually a song they're currently
playing with has invalid tag information attached and therefore shows up as blank.

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"Plainly Inquisitive" <> wrote in message
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> hi
>
> my question is when a contact is online, sometimes one sees one or two
> hyphens next to the contact name on the list. what does that represent?