After conversation with one of the parties involved, the Andrew:Online science staff noted, that when a certain, Jackie Archer signed on to "MSN" messenger, Mr Vivian Ballantyne either disappeared offline altogether, or set his status as "busy" "out to lunch" or "away". To test this fact further, I set my own status to "on the phone", and sat waiting...
As you can see, Vivian (pheonix) is quite happily online, waiting for someone to talk to him. We shall see what happens when we introduce the second person into the equation...
Here, Vivian is circled in red, whilst Jackie is circled in yellow, and as you can see, they are both online, waiting for people to talk to them.
But, here you can see things taking a turn for the expected, as Vivian suddenly disappears offline, despite Ms Archer's best attempts at making conversation. Why, we can only guess. Personally I like to think that wild bears came crashing through his front window, and couragously he had to go beat them back with a clothes horse. Therefore, I hereby pronounce this Science project as "rah", and completed.
Oh, by the way...that's trillian that I'm using...get it, make donations, it rocks...