Re: pyICQ-t & privacy options (again)

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 <jadestorm@xxxxxxxxx> 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 Abélard 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!


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Regards,
Oleg
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