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I tested with AIM 7.2.6.1 and ICQ 7.2 build 3159 and both of them send no status message to indicate that the status message has been cleared. So it really seems like this comment and this behavior is incorrect. This fixes #12988. I haven't noticed any side effects yet. The side effect I'm worried about is that maybe we'll clear someone's status message when we shouldn't (because we receive a userinfo packet without a status message for whatever reason)

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