Pidgin - Suspiciously uploading data?

[Lauritz Vesteraas Thaulow]

Hi,


There's a little group of people on the Ubuntu forums wondering why
pidgin regularly uploads a sizeable amount of data to the msn servers,
even when not chatting with anyone.

Quoting one poster:

  "wireshark says i'm sending and recieveing lots of msnms packets
   between me and 207.46.124.52 which will lookup to 
   by2msg4010605.phx.gbl.

   I receive 76 bytes then send 916 bytes over and over until I've sent
   at least a megabyte and often much more i think."

Thread with more info is at
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9272744


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Best regards,

  Lauritz Vesteraas Thaulow