Hello,
I think default option for web presence must be "disabled" due to spam
problems. And may be it must be switchable for each user.
On 3/16/06, Daniel Henninger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not hard really ;D The only hard part is finding me time to do
> so!!!! I've got a lot of other privacy related issues I need to work
> on too. I don't know if you know this, but PyICQ sends your web
> presence out unless you disable it. That is a key target for getting
> you spammed I found, so you might want to disable that! (it's an
> option in the latest release)
>
> Daniel
>
> On Mar 16, 2006, at 2:37 PM, Arnaud Ab?lard wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I already posted about this matter a few months ago, but i still
> > have the same problem:
> >
> > I'm getting spam on ICQ from contacts who are not in my contact
> > list. I followed the advice that was given to me last time and used
> > the official ICQ client to set my privacy options to
> > - "Only accept message from users on my contact list"
> > - "Do not accept world wide page messages"
> > - "Do not accept Email Express Messages"
> > - "My authorisation is required before users add my to their
> > contact list"
> > - I didn't check "Allow others to view my status on the web"
> >
> > and i still get spammed when connected using pyICQt (which is 99%
> > of the time) and it started when i first switched my ICQ
> > communication to jabber. That's why i suspect that pyICQt is
> > somehow involved in this story even though I think those privacy
> > features are supposed to be handled by ICQ's servers?
> >
> > How hard would it be to either:
> > - set the default to only accept messages from the contact list and
> > have pyICQt discard messages that doesn't meet that restriction
> > - fetch preferences from ICQ server and do the same
> >
> > Anyway thanks for those great transports!
--
Regards,
Oleg
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Mar 18 21:25:33 2006
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Henninger)
Date: Sat Mar 18 21:25:41 2006
Subject: [py-transports] pyICQ-t & privacy options (again)
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Yeah, I agree. I'm going to switch it in te next version. As for
the switchable for each user part, that'll come in time.
Daniel
On Mar 18, 2006, at 2:47 PM, Oleg Motienko wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I think default option for web presence must be "disabled" due to spam
> problems. And may be it must be switchable for each user.
>
> On 3/16/06, Daniel Henninger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Not hard really ;D The only hard part is finding me time to do
>> so!!!! I've got a lot of other privacy related issues I need to work
>> on too. I don't know if you know this, but PyICQ sends your web
>> presence out unless you disable it. That is a key target for getting
>> you spammed I found, so you might want to disable that! (it's an
>> option in the latest release)
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>> On Mar 16, 2006, at 2:37 PM, Arnaud Ab?lard wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I already posted about this matter a few months ago, but i still
>>> have the same problem:
>>>
>>> I'm getting spam on ICQ from contacts who are not in my contact
>>> list. I followed the advice that was given to me last time and used
>>> the official ICQ client to set my privacy options to
>>> - "Only accept message from users on my contact list"
>>> - "Do not accept world wide page messages"
>>> - "Do not accept Email Express Messages"
>>> - "My authorisation is required before users add my to their
>>> contact list"
>>> - I didn't check "Allow others to view my status on the web"
>>>
>>> and i still get spammed when connected using pyICQt (which is 99%
>>> of the time) and it started when i first switched my ICQ
>>> communication to jabber. That's why i suspect that pyICQt is
>>> somehow involved in this story even though I think those privacy
>>> features are supposed to be handled by ICQ's servers?
>>>
>>> How hard would it be to either:
>>> - set the default to only accept messages from the contact list and
>>> have pyICQt discard messages that doesn't meet that restriction
>>> - fetch preferences from ICQ server and do the same
>>>
>>> Anyway thanks for those great transports!
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Oleg
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