Re: EB-lite feature requests
Meredydd Luff <[email protected]>
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Useful, but it's a hack I'd rather avoid. Groups are groups are groups - we shouldn't really have to attach any other meaning to them, such as "anyone in this group is to be ignored", or "anyone in this group doesn't exist properly", or anything like that. Meredydd On Tuesday 11 March 2003 15:05, Malcolm wrote: > On Tuesday 11 Mar 2003 7:21 am, Meredydd Luff wrote: > > Do you have any suggestions for avoiding this? Because I'm kinda > > stumped... > > Create the object, but make it temporary - ie. don't save it, don't add it > to the protocol-server's buddy list, etc. Then if someone IMs you, it goes > in something like the "unknown" category and if you wish to keep that > person on your list, you move them to one of your existing groups (or > "ignore" if you don't want to hear from them again). > > You might want to call it something other than 'uknown' to avoid confusing > people, or make it optional as to whether it's temporary or not. > > Do any of the protocols require someone to be on your buddy list before you > can IM them? (I don't think so, but I don't know them all). I'm not sure > that's a problem though, you'd just have to move them to a 'known' category > before replying. -- MSN Developer, Everybuddy project http://www.everybuddy.com/ MSN: [email protected] AIM: blip109 Yahoo: modula7