bot-sentry pidgin msn spam interaction

[deckrider]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Ka-Hing Cheung <khc at hxbc.us> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 06:57 -0600, deckrider wrote:
>> Hello, I'm writing to ask some advice about the following bug:
>>
>> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2002718&group_id=156021&atid=798112
>>
>> Is there a way to suppress these error messages so that they don't
>> open windows (but not other messages that aren't a result of this
>> plugin)?
>>
>> Or is the recommendation in the bug the way to proceed (wait 5 seconds
>> and then check if the user is on line before sending the challenge)?
>>
>> Or possibly some other alternative?
>
> You can't check if the buddy is online unless the buddy is in your buddy
> list, right? If the buddy is in your buddy list, there's probably no
> point in sending a challenge?
>
> I am not sure how best to solve this, libpurple does not have a way to
> notify the caller when a prpl operation fails, so the prpl can only
> write to the conversation when something goes wrong. Maybe trap the
> conversation signals and hide it?

Yes, that was what I thought, but it seems that the conversation
doesn't exist at all.  Then because of the switchboard error, the msn
protocol _creates_ the conversation and then writes to it.

As I understand it (PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong here), _creating_
the conversation is what opens the window.  And it bot-sentry's
mission to block this initial opening of the window.

It does appear that one can connect to writing-im-msg and block
further text from being written to the window.  But by then it is
pointless since the window would have already needlessly opened, thus
disturbing the user.