Unique away messages to different users??

[FredAkbar]

Here's an idea for how to revive %a: have Adium use the Alias for auto-responses, but send %n to the server for display on other clients. If you did it that way, it might become worth adding %a back into the list of options.

I suggested something similar to (or perhaps the same as) that, earlier in this thread, but the devs said it was more trouble than it's worth.

[jmelloy]

How about using an AppleScript in an autoresponse? This would involve setting a global away message (say, "leave a message"), and then the autoreply would be something like "%_customAwayFor{%n}".

I think this method would work.