Re: ICQ annoyances

Oh yes.  It has become a more than daily occurrence. 
I refuse the authorization request.  They keep sending
me messages.  I block them.  Mostly something to the
effect of "Hi I'm so and so from the cafe, remember
me?  If you don't you should look at my profile! :D "
then they start whining.  "Add me PLEEEAAASSE?"  ugh. 
I've stopped using ICQ altogether.  (or at least,
taken it off of my "auto logon")

I'm also having a dreadful time deleting some
'buddies.'  I delete them and they instantly reappear
in my 'default' list.  I delete them from the default
list and they reappear in the other buddy list I had
them in!  lol... And, if someone on  MSN adds me to
their buddy list, I can't seem to 'not' have them on
my buddy list unless I block them.  It's not like I
don't want to talk to them ever at all, I just don't
wanna see them when they're online.  

I have this one especially pernicious "buddy" who
reappears every time I delete him.  Instantly!  It is
a buddy that I somehow have in 2 lists, blocked and
default.  He will not be gone from either!  He is one
annoying dude and I'd like to forget he even exists. 
Yet, even in my own program, he still won't disappear!
 LOL!  

And, I'm sure it's been asked before, but I just can't
seem to work it out, I can't get file transfers to
work on any of the networks.  I am behind a firewall, 
running Fire 1.0.3, OSX 10.3.5, 1.35 Ghz G4, 896 RAM.
:)

I am rather new to the whole "firewall" thing and I
can't say I know exactly how it works, it may be that
it is my problem. *shrugs*  I'm running the latest (I
think) version of Norton Personal Firewall.


--- Nigel Whitfield <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm seriously thinking of giving up on ICQ, since
> it's such a haven for 
> spammers... however, a few changes to the way Fire
> handles ICQ messages 
> might help.
> 
> I already have the pop up for people who aren't in
> my buddy list, so I 
> can refuse a request to chat.
> 
> However, if I'm away and someone sends me an
> authorisation request, it 
> seems that my away message is sent back to them. I
> don't want this - it 
> lets them know there is someone on that ICQ.
> 
> If I do get the authorise request, I deny it, and
> then click Block 
> Buddy. But I still get the auth requests from the
> same person. Is there 
> a way to stop this happening? I've not 100%
> established if this depends 
> on whether or not the window that popped up is still
> open; I must be 
> more systematic about it.
> 
> But either way, I'd really like to be able to cut
> down on this junk. 
> What would be really good would also be a way for
> Fire to filter 
> authorisation requests too - for example, either
> rejecting any that 
> contains a URL, which seems to be a favoured trick
> of ICQ spammers, or 
> perhaps only allowing through requests that contain
> a certain keyword; 
> I could then give my icq on my web page, along with
> a message like 
> 'Please include the word "grommit" in your
> authorisation request'
> 
> Anyone else have these sorts of hassles with ICQ?
> Any other suggestions 
> for dealing with the volume of spam?
> 
> Nigel.
> 
> 
> 
>
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