Andy points out a recent review of Skype. The original source identifies a couple of surprising information about Skype that I have not seen before:
1. The Skype system suffers from some delays in updating the status of users. While playing around with blocking contacts and going offline for short periods, we found that the status of the user took about five minutes or longer to update on other systems.
2. Unfortunately, there is no 'message waiting' ability as seen in ICQ. Messages sent to an offline user will not be received by them when they log on. Unsurprising given the P2P structure of Skype. They could send the offline message as an email as MSN Messenger does. It is surprising that they do not have this capability.
