Bug 124457 - Explicitly block contacts in order to avoid spam
Summary: Explicitly block contacts in order to avoid spam
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: kopete
Classification: Applications
Component: ICQ and AIM Plugins (show other bugs)
Version: 0.11.1
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kopete Developers
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Keywords:
: 139653 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2006-03-28 23:31 UTC by Jan Arnhold
Modified: 2009-05-20 13:43 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Jan Arnhold 2006-03-28 23:31:34 UTC
Version:           0.11.1 (using KDE 3.5.1-1.5.fc3.kde, Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg))
Compiler:          gcc version 3.4.4 20050721 (Red Hat 3.4.4-2)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.12-1.1381_FC3

As SPAM, which I receive via my ICQ account, increased in the last weeks, I looked for an ICQ Block List, but I did not find it.

Is there a posibility to add an ICQ Block list?

An easy way to block senders whould be to add a "Block user" button in the pop up window which appears if a user wrote a message. Ideally, this button should only appear, if the user is not on kopetes contact list.

Thank you for your great work!
Comment 1 Stephan Sokolow 2008-01-10 09:44:01 UTC
The spam I get never comes from the same ICQ number. I'd prefer an "allow only messages from people on my contact list" option.

Back when I was on Gaim, I asked and they said "The official client doesn't offer that, so we won't because it could confuse people". Hopefully you guys will be more sensible about this.
Comment 2 Tristan Miller 2008-08-23 12:10:20 UTC
Since almost all spam takes the form of messages containing URLs from random accounts, I think a more sensible solution might be to block all messages containing URLs from people not on one's contact list, unless the user actually has a chat window open with that person.
Comment 3 Tristan Miller 2008-08-23 12:12:51 UTC
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***
Comment 4 Stephan Sokolow 2009-02-06 07:43:21 UTC
Assuming it works as advertised, the Privacy plugin will meet my needs here.

For people who don't want to use whitelisting, I think all that needs to be done to close this bug is to add regex support to the Privacy plugin's message content blacklist option and to make sure it works in concert with the "users not on my contact list" nick whitelisting as an AND filter rather than an OR filter.

...though in such a case, it'd probably be a good idea to include a URL-matching regex as the default text for that field so users just need to check the checkbox if that's what they want.
Comment 5 Christophe Marin 2009-05-20 13:43:30 UTC
*** Bug 139653 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***