Re: EB-lite feature requests

On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 10:05:05AM -0500, Malcolm wrote:
| On Tuesday 11 Mar 2003 7:21 am, Meredydd Luff wrote:
| 
| > Right. This is a design flaw in the whole rich-object buddy system EB
| > keeps. Each account has a complex structure associated with it, which on
| > the plus side allows complicated protocol-supplied data and contact
| > bindings, but on the other hand requires it to be a member of a contact and
| > therefore on the contact list.
| 
| > 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. 

Better still, create the buddy but have an option in the preferences to 
automatically delete all contacts in the Unknown group when exiting.

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