From: Ethan Blanton <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:51:42 -0500 > (I believe MSN used to (maybe still does?) use a "Friends" group by > default, and AIM uses "Buddies" by default.) They are structurally > the same thing, they differ only in name.
I'll speculate that the Debian maintainers set it up so that the freshly installed contact list would work for, or be familiar to, MSN users and to AIM users. Apparently these are "groups", if that term is acceptable; and a user can create or delete a group at will. Nevertheless, two groups with the same members is rather peculiar to the novice. Trust me, I'm a novice. > You may feel free to drag > all of your buddies to whichever group name you prefer, at which point > the other will disappear. Yes; works just as you say. > I assume your "Friends" and "Buddies" issue is related to simply > having two groups in your buddy list, ... Correct. > ... probably on different services. The only serivice I have is Google Talk. My one contact appeared under both "Friends" and "Buddies". I guess this phenomenon is Debian specific. Thanks for the explanation, ... Peter E. >-- New telephone 1 360 639 0202. Old telephone 1 360 450 2132. bcc: peasthope at shaw.ca Work "http://carnot.yi.org/";. "http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/index.html#Itinerary";. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
