Empathy not removing contact requests

[NoOp]

On 09/20/2010 10:12 PM, Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:39 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> On 09/18/2010 09:28 AM, Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
>>> On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Wade Smart <wadesmart at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Since I moved to 10.04 I started using Empathy and one thing Im having
>>>> trouble with is all the spammers who try to contact me through Yahoo.
>>>> They all want to be your friend. On pidgin you could say no and that was
>>>> it but Empathy doesnt seem to remember this daily. Any idea how to
>>>> resolve this?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Same with me, solved by switching back to Pidgin, deleting the spamers
>>> and (eventually not) switching back to Empathy. Any news from Empathy
>>> for Maverick, regarding this issue?
>>>
>>
>> Check here:
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy
>>
> 
> 273 open bugs in Empathy, (apparently) none regarding the inability of
> removing unwanted Yahoo contact requests, without accepting them
> first. Since at least one of then is about the lack of a decent
> contact manager (wishlist), I guess there's no need to report an
> additional bug at this moment. It seems that Empathy is still a work
> in progress.
> 

Agree... I had basic issues just importing contacts:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/511729
[Empathy didn't import contacts from gaim/pidgin]