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Authored by: ptwithy on Mon, Dec 17 2007 at 3:14PM PST

I used to do this in Tiger, but too many times accidentally SMS-ed someone when I didn't mean to. Chax helped, because it would warn you when you were about to send to a cell phone. It's nice that iChat now has a better status indicator.

FWIW, it only switches over to SMS if the person really logs out. Being 'away' is not enough. But by choosing Send SMS, you can switch to that.

Also, I didn't have to re-add the person to my buddy list to get their SMS address to show up.