AIM sending chat requests to Google Talk chats

[Patrick Cranston]

I use Pidgin to combine chats for two accounts into one client, AIM (work) and 
Google Talk (personal).  This has worked seamlessly so far, but starting all of 
a sudden today, people that I have Google Talk chats open with are telling me 
that they are getting repeated messages from my AIM account that 
[username]@aol.com wants to chat with them.

It's not interrupting the gChat, that works fine, but they keep getting sent 
these chat requests from my AIM account, when I'm not doing anything with AIM 
(am signed in but have no open AIM chats and have not tried to start a chat from 
AIM to Google).  Pidgin is signed into both accounts, and it seems like if I 
have an open gChat then it will send a chat request from the AIM account.  I am 
apparently annoying the hell out of people that I gChat with, so if this 
continues I'm going to have to go back to using two accounts.

It seems like today there is some sort of integration has gone live between AOL 
and Google Talk. 


http://www.businessinsider.com/now-you-can-im-google-chat-buddies-from-aim-and-vice-versa-2011-5


http://pidgin.im/pipermail/devel/2011-May/010360.html

I am not interested in having chats from my AIM account to Google, and I don't 
want the AIM account in Pidgin sending these chat requests to anyone that I 
gChat with via Pidgin.  Any ideas?