[Telepathy] Bug 551911 - Make possible to block messages from people not in buddy list

[Vitaly Minko]

  19.10.2010 15:48, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 at 15:22:55 +0400, Vitaly Minko wrote:
>> Did you mean this draft? https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28423
>>
>> It seems not to be moving forward.
> You're welcome to help that draft to move forward: it mainly needs a trial
> implementation in a connection manager, I think.
> (I'd suggest telepathy-gabble.)
>
> However, that's an API to block individual "bad" contacts. Setting a general
> policy for "everyone not on your contact list" is a different draft,
> <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24908>. It's not clear to me
> which one you want.
I want to fix this in the way the devs like. I personally prefer this 
solution:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pidgin-bs/
which requires CommunicationPolicy AFAIU.
But it's up to devs to decide. So I'd like to know their opinion before 
implementing anything.

Regarding CommunicationPolicy.DRAFT

Am I right that it blocks incoming messages on the server side and there 
is no way to ask a blocked client a question?
In this case this API is not suitable for the solution I propose. We 
need one more Access_Control_Type at least.

> (Depending on the protocol, it might be the case that only one of those two
> possibilities can ever be supported; I believe XMPP and MSN are examples of
> protocols where either or both can happen.)
>
>      Simon
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