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[Tim]

On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 11:06 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> Yes, that is what I am experiencing still, even as I changed my
> privacy to say: "Allow only the users on my Buddy List", and yet
> the Authorization Request still pops up over and over for the
> same persistent requester.  I am going to drop ICQ forever
> on gaim on FC if this keeps on going. I suspect that this is done
> automatically by some spammer who wants to gain illegal access via ICQ
> perhaps.

I suspect it only blocks "messages" from going through, but still allows
authorisation requests.  Else, how would you get a new user through to
you?  I don't mean random people, but you'd have to pre-allow a friend,
*and* know that you had to do so before it'd work.

Perhaps the author of Gaim would be amenable to some authorisation
filtering, that'd ignore some of the stupid attempts.

e.g. Requests saying:  "please add me" as the authorisation reason

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