Sometime ago I read somewhere that the devs at AOL who worked on AIM had a name for this; it was something like "the AYO problem" for Are You Online?. Ergo, th

Sometime ago I read somewhere that the devs at AOL who worked on AIM had a name for this; it was something like "the AYO problem" for Are You Online?. Ergo, this issue began sometime not long after the start of The September That Never Ended, apparently.