privacy issues

[TechGuy]

First, I would like to say I really like this program and always refer 
it other's looking for any IM utility.

I am using Pidgin v2.7.9 on Vista Ultimate x64.

I keep getting requests to add people when I have set the privacy 
options to " Allow only the users on my my list" under each IM and it 
actually seems to have increased the number of requests. I have enabled 
and disabled it to see if there are any changes but no change.

Is there a problem with this build or some other setting I can try ?

Other than that, this program is great! Much better than my last 
multi-IM utility which was Trillian-Astra.

David K.
techguy at dkline.org