[Adium-devl] Fwd: [Adium-feedback] Auto-Accept Direct Connect

[Zachary West]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:00 PM, Colin Barrett <timber at lava.net> wrote:
> On Apr 22, 2008, at 5:05 AM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
>
>  > It only happens for people on your contact list.  It never happens for
>  > people not on your contact list.  I don't see any problem with this,
>  > personally.
>
>  Just because someone is on my contact list doesn't always mean I
>  personally added them there. Doesn't AIM add people you talk to to the
>  Recent Buddies group?

Yeah, this was the first thing I thought of when Evan added it; he
modified it so that Recent buddies doesn't count.

>
>  I've heard the same complaint from a number of people (which is why I
>  forwarded the email). Most were surprised and wondered how they could
>  turn it off. I think part of that might be the way the direct connect
>  feature works, in that it shows a lot of scary-looking information
>  about IP addresses and such.
>

Perhaps the "auto accept from contacts on my list" should apply to
both file transfers *and* direct IM? Seems like a good combination,
since if you want to autoaccept one, you'd want to autoaccept the
other too.

Zac