[Xymon] Acknowledge purple?

Having recently moved from Big Brother to Xymon, one of the features I find most valuable is 'acknowledge'. It lets someone say 'yeah, I know the host has a problem' while leaving an indication of the condition on the web interface.

What I don't understand, though, is why we are not able to 'acknowledge' purple events. It seems desirable and I can't see how it would cause confusion.

I've looked in acknowledge.c, and it appears that is is explicitly querying for 'color=red,yellow'.

Is there a business case to exclude purple from the option to 'ack'?

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