Version: 0.6.1a (using KDE 3.1.1) Installed from: SuSE Compiler: gcc version 3.2 OS: Linux (i686) release 2.4.19-4GB Instant messages from people who are not in the contact list should be ignored, or at least filtered. I have been getting instant message SPAM from random addresses.
Interesting feature. MSN has the ability to do this in his protocol. don't know about other. how that should be done? globaly? per accounts? per protocols?
Subject: Re: messages from people not in contact list should be filtered. HI, I think it should be done per account, possibly set as an option. I know that when I used to use Windows (cough) I would get a popup message telling me that someone had added me to their contact list, and did I wish to be contacted by them. I don't know if what I suggest is feasible, but it would certainly help stem the flood of spam messages. It's bad enough getting 20 or more per day in my inbox without them popping up on my screen too. Thanks for your interest. Andy. _________________________________________________________________ Use MSN Messenger to send music and pics to your friends http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger
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This has been fixed for MSN, in CVS head, you can now "block" everyone not in the contactlist. not than this is a server capability, not a filtre client-side I think a filtre could be done in a plugin
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As Olivier said, this is done in CVS for MSN; and since this is only possible on certain protocols, I'm closing this report. Feel free to open another report for another plugin, but make sure that protocol supports such an option first.
Subject: Re: [Kopete-devel] messages from people not in contact list should be filtered. On Sunday 21 September 2003 19:14, Sig
> it's easy enough for Kopete to suppress the message and never show it Yeah, but that would be a Bad Solution (tm), because the remote party would believe you actually got the message since they wouldn't get a blocked notification.
Subject: Re: [Kopete-devel] messages from people not in contact list should be filtered. On Monday 22 September 2003 00:05, Sig
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when i get spammed by someone via yahoo (which is basically the only type of message i get there) i DO want to ignore him, and i do not care wether a camwhore in L.A. knows that i ignore her bots, or not. also, i want to have a setting where people that i dont have in my contact list cannot crapflood me. sorry for the tone, but i just had a 419 scammer flooding me via yahoo, and the way it is now, i had to ignore each single line he wrote.
yet another spam run. this time on icq. kopete DEFINITIVELY needs the option to block messages from senders that are not in my contact list. and no, "this works only when the protocol XYZ does it itself" is not an option.
Please add this feature. Simple as that: PLEASE. Maybe it's considered a somewhat 'bad solution', but the way proposed by #12 is still a lot better than not having an ignore feature at all. Somehow with bugs like this you get the feeling the people working on Kopete might not be really using it the way users do. Maybe you only use MSN, but others use ICQ or Yahoo for various reasons, and isn't it the responsibility of the IM client to be able to simply ignore messages? The native client can do it afaik. Anyway my girlfriend is beeing spamed for the last two days and always asks me how to block contacts. I'm just waiting for her to quit using Kopete :( And no matter if you care for that ONE user or not; this will be a sad day or KDE imo.
well, i think sending auto-messages to people you choose to ignore is the wrong way (ok, maybe unless it's ONE message, like "user XYZ has put you on his ignore list"... and even that is not good because it tells the spammer "get a new account now"). If I choose to ignore someone (or delete him/her from my contacts list), it's MY decision. And in most cases that come to mind, i could not care less wether the spammer (or ex girlfriend or ex coworker that you dont want to deal with anymore, or whatever) falsely thinks i got all his/her messages, or not. simple as that, two features are needed: a blocklist that works with ALL contacts (for the obvious reasons of protocols that don't enable you to require authentication before someone can msg you), and a setting "ignore messages from contacts that are not on my contact list" that also works with ALL protocols. Face it, if someone goes on IRC to be able to chat with random people, he/she is likely to use a full-fledged irc client, rather than an IM client. heh, being able to ignore people not on your contact list could even be a STRONG argument in favour of kopete over other IM clients (/me glares at yahoo which is the main spam source in the IM world for me)
Status of this whishlist item is set to RESOLVED?! I'm just interested in how and when this feature was implemented. Since I'm using KDE 3.5 (now 3.5.1) I get SPAM messages via ICQ. Well it's actually no SPAM as we're used to, but the messages are from people I don't know with sometimes very cryptic nicknames and their status is always offline. Either the content of the messages has no sense at all or it sounds like some social engineering tactics. So I regard this as SPAM. Anyway, this gets really annoying by time. Like others here, I don't care and even don't want those people to know that I'm ignoring them, too. Why was this status set to RESOLVED? I didn't find a way to suppress messages from people not in my contact list, neither in the settings for the ICQ protocol nor in any global settings.
well, ignoring someting IS a solution... not a good one, though.
Surely it should be WONTFIX if it's just not going to be implemented?
the day this is set to WONTFIX is the day that i'm going back to psi and using the jabber/other messenger gateways. and its not because psi could do this (to be honest, i dont even know if it can), but its the attitude that would be signalled by setting this obviously wanted feature to WONTFIX. If the kopete developers think it is not a good idea, they could set its default to "disabled", but telleing the users "NO, we WANT that you get spam" is not very kind.
I have been CC'd on this bug since around 2003 asking for this to be implemented. If I would have known 3+ years later I would still be waiting, I'd learn C/QT and implement this thing myself. It may not be "WONTFIX" but in reality it is "WONTFIX" Mathias Homann wrote: [bugs.kde.org quoted mail]
#22: ok, lets do it. btw, psi does have a "ignore people not in my contact list" setting.. now all it needs are metacontacts...
There was a blacklisting feature that was implemented for Kopete 0.11 and it would exclude those not on your contact list, IIRC. I can't offer any reasons as to why it was disabled, though. This wishlist needs to be reopened, in any case. Now, if some of you feel somehow personally offended by the fact that this isn't implemented, or it's resolved and but not implemented, I don't have anything to offer you to make you feel better. There are more than 350 feature requests and more than 200 bugs that are currently opened against Kopete and a 6-8 person team (if we're lucky) just can't get to them all, even if they are popular wishes. I ask that you please continue to wait a little longer. A lot of things will be fixed and implemented for KDE 4, when Kopete should finally reach 1.0
Sure, I understand that completely... I was just wondering if this feature was implemented by now, because of the RESOLVED status. Anyway, I suggest to reopen this request, because WONTFIX or RESOLVED gives people the impression of: "it's a very bad idea and we'll never implement this". Leaving it open due to lack of resources (time, developers) is allright... I think!
not fixed yet.
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This is a VERY desired feature, at least for ICQ users and I've heard, that some other IM clients (like Gaim and Psi) already have a filtering. So I'm voting for this bug. IMO, filtering is a "must" for 1.0 release. P.S. It seems like Bug #83841 is a duplicate of this one.
imo Bug #83841 is a duplicate of only a part of this here. This here is protocol-intependent, and 83841 is only about ICQ.
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Kopete trunk has got a privacy plugin, allowing whitelisting, blacklisting, ignoring messages from contacts not on your contact list and filtering for keywords. See http://andredsblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/i-proudly-present-kopete-privacy.html for more information.
1. a plugin in "trunk" does not help the average user 2. nooone can tell for sure which features in trunk will be moved into a release version, and when, if at all. 3. the website doesnt really help. Not even a little bit of information how to grab that plugin from the svn and build it into a "release" kopete.
1. you are not very well informed 2. you should maybe think about FOSS and the people developing it a bit 3. i'm not in the mood talking to people like you any longer
Hi, Andre! It's good to know, that someone finally addressing the issue. Moreover, implementing this feature as a plugin adds more flexibility to other developers as well as to the end users. Thank you! What Mathias has meant, IMO, is that we, as an interested party, should ensure that this plugin will be included in the next Kopete release, so all users will be able to benefit from it. So is there anything special we can do for this purpose (e.g. talk with the mainline kopete developers)? On 15 May 2007 11:55:40 -0000, Andre Duffeck <andre@duffeck.de> wrote: [bugs.kde.org quoted mail]
Hi, the plugin is not a 3rd party plugin but it is developed in the main kopete subversion repository and thus _will_ be included in the next release. There's nothing to worry about...
Great news!!! Thank you a lot! On 18 May 2007 14:25:30 -0000, Andre Duffeck <andre@duffeck.de> wrote: [bugs.kde.org quoted mail]
Please be aware that by next release, I believe Andre means the corresponding release for KDE 4.0
Yes, should have stated that more clearly, sorry.
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