On 09/06/2006, at 12:21 AM, S?rgio Freire wrote: > Hi all. > I don't know if you have been experiencing this but I have and some > colleagues of mine also. > I'm connected through a jabber server, of course, to the ICQ and > MSN networks. > On ICQ I keep receiving "user xxx added to your contact list" (or > similar), "xxx is now online"... and then the guy/script sends me > a message: "hi! I have some photos of mine. Please see them at > http://blabla";... > On MSN, I have some new friends and sometimes "spam contacts" which > get added to my contact list without asking me anything.. > > So, > a) why on ICQ spam contacts get added to my contact list without > asking me; how can there be so many spam clients on ICQ? Is this > also happening to you? > b) why on MSN contacts get in my contact list? (here I'm not sure > if I had them in the past... maybe.. not 100% sure) > c) is this a Pandion bug or so that accepts every thing? > > Note: I'm using Pandion 2.5 with "accept users that are in my > contact list, ask other" option enabled and "display messages from > people not in my contact list" disabled > > Regards, > Sergio Freire
The best a MSN contact can do without your authorisation is ask for your authorisation. However, if there are many of these spam accounts, there could be a _lot_ of authorisation requests. --- James
