[Bug 19903] Implement the "stored" list

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19903

--- Comment #10 from Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk> 2010-06-28 09:21:11 PDT ---
IRC discussion:

16:28 < Tester> lfrb: shouldnt the stored list be the equivalent of the WLM 
                contact list ... 
16:29 < lfrb> Tester: ideally...yes...but that would make it impossible to 
              remove contacts form the publish (allow) list
16:30 < Tester> does it ? I though that list was the hot mail contact list ?
16:30 < lfrb> they will be able to see your presence/status and you can't even 
              know it/ do something about it
16:30 < smcv> I don't think violating the invariant that stored is a superset 
              of (publish u subscribe) is ideal
16:33 < lfrb> Tester: WLM contact list == (Hotmail contact list) - (People not 
              in subscribe/forward list)
16:52 < smcv> lfrb, Tester: so basically the problem is that we believe that 
              telling you who can see you're online is important, but WLM 
              doesn't...
16:53 < lfrb> smcv: yes...I think we should add these contacts to the contact 
              list...they will always appear offline anyway. And if you really 
              don't want to see them, you can delete them "properly"
16:55 < smcv> I expect that some UIs will do WLM-like "subscribe-only" 
              filtering, and those that don't will have to have a FAQ entry 
              explaining why "deleted" contacts from WLM reappear?
16:56 < lfrb> smcv: yes, that seems like a reasonable solution according to me
16:56 < smcv> Tester: what do you think? you seemed to feel strongly about this
16:57 < smcv> hmm
16:57 < smcv> actually, I think I can see why this was a problem on Maemo
16:57 < smcv> abook sync and the Empathy contact list aren't the same thing
16:58 < smcv> if you're feeding your contact list into an address book, you 
              don't want people who're only there because they can see your 
              presence
16:58 < smcv> I'm not sure whether we want people with subscribe = No fed into 
              an address book either, mind
16:59 < smcv> treitter: what contacts does folks consider significant? 
              subscribe, or subscribe u stored, or what?
17:02 < treitter> smcv: it's the same as Empathy's scheme, which is subscribe u 
                  stored u publish, and when contacts are added to subscribe, 
                  they're automatically added to publish

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