pidgin using excessive bandwidth with msn accounts

2014-11-17 Thread Ook
Pidgin 2.10.10 on linux, and I think 2.10.9 on windows. I noticed today that when any msn account logged in, pidgin will sit there and consume 200k-300k of bandwidth, even when idle. I disabled the msn accounts, and the bandwidth consumption dropped to zero. This started a few days or so ago (

Re: pidgin using excessive bandwidth with msn accounts

2014-11-17 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Monday, November 17, 2014 a las 08:47:54PM -0700, Ook escribió: > Pidgin 2.10.10 on linux, and I think 2.10.9 on windows. > > I noticed today that when any msn account logged in, pidgin will sit > there and consume 200k-300k of bandwidth, even when idle. I disabled the > msn accounts, an

Re: pidgin using excessive bandwidth with msn accounts

2014-11-18 Thread David Woolley
On 18/11/14 05:54, Matthias Apitz wrote: Is the list policy set to allow posting without subscribing? Yes. I think the policy is to make it easy for users to get support, and if you look at many of the questions, I suspect that the users would not be able to cope with subscribing first. The

Re: pidgin using excessive bandwidth with msn accounts

2014-11-18 Thread David Woolley
On 18/11/14 03:47, Ook wrote: Pidgin 2.10.10 on linux, and I think 2.10.9 on windows. I noticed today that when any msn account logged in, pidgin will sit there and consume 200k-300k of bandwidth, even when idle. I disabled the msn accounts, and the bandwidth consumption dropped to zero. This st

Re: pidgin using excessive bandwidth with msn accounts

2014-11-18 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Tuesday, November 18, 2014 a las 08:04:44AM +, David Woolley escribió: > Incidentally, the symptom reported this time was slightly different, > although it may be a slightly more technical report of the same problem.. I think, it is the same problem. Without the Application Id fix, p

Re: pidgin using excessive bandwidth with msn accounts

2014-11-18 Thread Ook
On 11/18/2014 01:08 AM, David Woolley wrote: On 18/11/14 03:47, Ook wrote: Pidgin 2.10.10 on linux, and I think 2.10.9 on windows. I noticed today that when any msn account logged in, pidgin will sit there and consume 200k-300k of bandwidth, even when idle. I disabled the msn accounts, and the