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they are not removed. Instead their status icon becomes replaced with a symbol that is similar to the airport symbol thats usually in the top right corner of your screen. It doesn't happen all the time however and if I quit adium and reopen it, the offline contacts are removed. Is this a glitch that can be fixed with the next update of Adium? It's just an annoyance

That means they've switched to a mobile device, not that they've gone offline.

Actaully that is not the problem. See the thread titled "weird symbol" http://forums.cocoaforge.com/viewtopic.php?t=12015

It appears to possibly be an issue with LIBGAIM. Several people have reported this. I have seen it wiht one of my contacts who I know does not go to mobile mode and lately when she logs off, Adium reports her status as mobile.

I know for a fact that my contacts are not mobile and yet it still shows that airport symbol when they go offline. Also, if this were true, then it would still show that symbol if I quit Adium and reopen it, but they disappear.

This has only started happening with Adium 1.0.1

Here's the explanation:

If the contact has a cell number associated with their MSN account, when they go offline, the Mobile icon will be shown. However, actually messaging via SMS to this number is not yet supported.

There may be a bug in which the mobile icon is not properly cleared when they sign back on.

I recommend this be an option we can turn off in future updates of Adium. It's just way too annoying

It is a bug.