Privacy issues

Jeremy Brown jeremy at brownjava.org
Mon Oct 26 02:26:26 UTC 2009


I think this is just caused by:

http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/10509

...and needs a rev of libpurple.  Should be easy enough to do, no?

Jeremy

Robert Vehse wrote:
>
> Am 22.10.2009 um 15:50 schrieb Eric Richie:
>
>> For those not on the feedback list, a large percentage of our emails
>> the past couple weeks have been over privacy settings no longer
>> working.  MSN, AIM, ICQ all seem to be reported.  Some recent changes
>> in libpurple (which Zac merged for 1.3.7) were theoretically supposed
>> to have fixed some issues with blocking on the AIM side of things but
>> we're still getting reports.
>
> There's also several tickets - just search for "block" and you'll find 
> many (one being http://trac.adium.im/ticket/13184) 
> <http://trac.adium.im/ticket/13184%29> - and forum posts.
>
>> Have any of you guys seen this issue yourselves?
>
> I haven't but I don't really mess much with the Privacy settings.
>
>>  Most affected users
>> describe being contacted by people that were previously blocked or
>> people they don't know (even though their privacy settings are set to
>> only allow those on their contact list).  This is starting to become a
>> little troubling.  
>> Would someone be willing to look into it?
>
> I certainly hope so.
>
>> -Eric
>
> -Robby





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