2009/7/5 Michael G Fletcher <[email protected]>: > On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Liam Proven<[email protected]> wrote: >> I get loads of MSN spim these days. At least 3-4/hr, sometimes dozens >> an hour, all the time I'm online. >> >> I meticulously block each one, but sometimes, the same ones keep >> spimming me again and again. Blocking seems to do nothing. >> >> I've even manually upgraded to Pidgin 2.5.8 from getdeb.net in an >> effort to overcome this. Made no differences. >> >> At least it does seem to have resolved the "friendly name changes too >> rapidly" errors and the failure of my status to go to 100% connected - >> since I added Facebook, it tended to stay on "connecting..." >> indefinitely. >> >> Is there any way of blocking MSN spammers? It's almost entirely on >> MSN, /very/ occasionally on Skype. AFAICS there's no "only allow IMs >> from people in my buddy list" option in Pidgin's MSN support, which I >> am coming to really miss... >> >> Ideas? Hints? Suggestions? >> > Liam > > Check Tools -> Privacy
Aha! Fantastic! Thank-you! If it works as advertised, as it were, that will be *just* the thing. You know, I've Googled for this feature & found nothing. I feel foolish for not noticing! -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: [email protected] • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: [email protected] Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: [email protected] • ICQ: 73187508 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
