On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Eben King wrote:
> Those of you using Pidgin (multi-protocol IM client) for ICQ (early IM
> protocol) may have been annoyed by spam, owing to Pidgin reverting ICQ's
> privacy level back to "block only these users" when it goes idle. I may have
> found a fix: "pidgin-privacy-please".
I think I might have found a (more annoying, harder-to-remember) fix: leave
the "Privacy" dialog open when it might go to sleep. I left it open all
night, and in the morning it was still on "Allow only the users in my
contact list".
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