Bugs item #1455192, was opened at 2006-03-21 10:11 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by crosser You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100235&aid=1455192&group_id=235
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: win32 Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: iceman76 (iceman76) Assigned to: Mark Doliner (thekingant) Summary: automotacilly changes the privacy settings Initial Comment: I have bothering unqnown people from icq always asking to be allowed to add me in their icq list. I set privacy just to get messages from people in my frien list, but gaim itself changes the setting to "everyone but those in the blacklist". The strange think is...it does it after some time. I mean: if I set the privacy as I want (get message only from buddies) than I close and restart gaim...the setting is still correct, but after some hours, and none having access to pc...it starts appearing annoing message from unknown people to be added in my contact list.... and if I chack the gaim privacy setting it's changed to "get message from all, but those in the blacklist"...by itself!!!!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Eugene Crosser (crosser) Date: 2007-02-27 21:27 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=124141 Originator: NO During last year, increased bot/spam traffic on ICQ finally made me upgrade in the hope that recent versions have the problem fixed. Still, as of 2.0.0beta6, despite the privacy setting does not automatically change back to "Block only users below" any more, setting "allow only users on my buddy list" does not work as expected. That is to say, does not work at all: messages from accounts that are not on my buddy list, including spam, are displayed as before. Rather annoying. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Etan Reisner (deryni9) Date: 2006-09-07 12:31 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=516184 First things first, the privacy dialog in gaim sucks. It is one of the worst dialogs gaim has ever had. It is also one of the hardest to redesign. The visibly selected option *does not* mean that that is the privacy setting that is applied for ICQ. ICQ has complicated privacy settings with multiple privacy lists that are in use all at the same time. gaim shows the privacy list that was last used in that dialog. So just because the dialog changes doesn't mean anything actually is different. All that being said, gaim also currently only implements the ICQ presence blocking privacy lists and not the message blocking lists. So, even if you block the spammers they can still send you messages. And once last thing, the reason that spammers found people so much when using gaim 1.5.0 is that that version of gaim set your account to be Web Aware (your status published on the website), the 2.0.0 betas have that setting as an option that defaults to off. Simply upgrading to the betas will likely cut the amount of spam *significantly* if not entirely. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Thomas Zajic (zlatk0) Date: 2006-09-07 12:21 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=150806 Same here, this is *really* evil. Just for the record, this annoying bug is still alive and kicking in 2.0.0beta3.1. :-( ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Sam M. (sam_malenfant) Date: 2006-05-11 18:07 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1295907 The pattern seems to be whenever GAIM wakes up after an idle time "away" and "sometimes" on restart, it checks with my (ICQ) account and incorrectly resets privacy to "block only the users below". If I stay active on the PC all day, and the connection is not reset, it sticks to my prefered "allow only users on buddy list". This suggests its a protocol problem reading the settings from my ICQ account. Besides fixing the protocol, an alternative workaround might be to have GAIM be authoritative for such settings rather than try to read it from the remote account. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Dee-Ann LeBlanc (dee-ann) Date: 2006-03-24 02:29 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1464215 It does this to me too, and it's maddening, since it leads to a lot of ICQ spam and harassment from what I assume are bots. This really, really, really needs to be fixed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100235&aid=1455192&group_id=235 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Gaim-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gaim-bugs
