Bin Chen wrote: > Hi, > > Many times when I change buddy list setting in MSN windows, the next > time I open pidgin it will ask me to add a buddy to local(or add local > to server, etc). I think every time the pidgin login in to MSN it will > retrieve the buddy list from server, why we need to store a bak in > local? Can I disable it? > > Thanks. > Bin
There are a variety of reasons for which we store a local copy of the buddy list, including the ability to group buddies from multiple accounts into a single contact that represents a person. A number of plugins also store information on a per-buddy basis, and this uses the local cache of the buddy list as well. At one point in time, it was very easy to lose your buddy list on MSN--the servers would randomly "eat" contacts (or so I've seen people say; I never experienced this), so the prompts were essentially a safeguard against server stupidity. While you actually see these effects of our storing a local copy of the list for MSN, we actually store the buddy lists for *all* your accounts. Most of the protocol plugins just silently trust the server-side buddy list; MSN is the most noticed exception. There is no way to disable this behavior, but there has been talk of developing a consistent buddy list merging feature that would work the same across all protocols. This merging feature would consolidate all the requests into a single dialog and ideally make managing these changes much easier. No one has had the time or willpower to start working on this yet, however. John
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