Blocking in Pidgin

[Samuel Thurston, III]

Jonathan,

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Jonathan Jesse<jjesse at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have notcied when i am using kopete under kubuntu i get no msn spam but runing pidgin i get a ton of msn spam any ideas on that wierd one?

I suspect this is further evidence of my claim:

> Interesting fact: using the official client it's nowhere near as bad,
> which means that there must be some client level filtering which
> pidgin is failing to do.

Kopete must have some functional algorithm for sussing out the spam,
or else connects to the protocol in a way that leaves it somehow less
exposed to the spamming.  Maybe this is worth filing a bug with pidgin
team over...