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On Thursday, May 9, 2002, at 09:39 AM, David Thorp wrote:
> I'm wondering if I've missed something and there is already a way to do
> this, or if not then would it be a good feature request?
>
> AIM and others have a number of different ways of blocking. They vary
> but
> they're something like this I think (I'm going from memory here, since I
> haven't had AIM on my Mac for a while):
>
> 1. Block no-one
> 2. Block these people (followed by a panel for a list of names)
> 3. Block everone other than those on my buddy list
> 4. Block everyone other than these people (followed by a panel for
> another list of names)
> 5. Block everyone
>
>
> Here "Block" means I can't see them and they can't see me. To them
> it's as
> if I'm not online, and to me it's as if they're not online.
>
> Now, Fire's pretty cool, because (again assuming I haven't missed
> something)
> I can see the people I've blocked (I see them come up in my "Blocked
> Buddies" group, but (supposedly) they can't see us. I think ICQ came up
> with that idea first - they call it "invisible" I think.
>
> The thing is, I want to be able to do numbers 3 and 4 above. I want to
> be
> able to block everyone except a select few people.
>
> One of the reasons for this is that if I block someone because I don't
> want
> them to know when I'm online, what's to stop that person logging on
> under a
> different name and then seeing me online?
>
> But if I just have everyone blocked, except for a select few people
> that I
> want to talk to, then to absolutely everyone else, whether I know them
> or
> not and no matter what name they log on under, I appear to be not
> online and
> that's the way I want it.
>
> Is this possible in Fire? Easy? Hard?
File it as a feature request. Currently Fire is always in the mode of
block an explicit list of buddies. Support for blocking is service
specific, of course but there's probably room for more configurability
there.
-Jason
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