Pidgin WIBNI or option I'm just not finding

[Phil Smith III]

When my ISP is flaky, as happens from time to time, it'll disconnect and
reconnect repeatedly. When it does so, I wind up with IM windows full of
sequences like this:

(4:02:44 AM)

106452616995561063094 is now known as xxxxxx.

 

(4:02:45 AM)

106452616995561063094 is now known as YYY.

 

(7:14:00 AM)

106452616995561063094 is now known as xxxxxx.

 

(7:14:00 AM)

106452616995561063094 is now known as YYY.

 

(7:36:57 AM)

106452616995561063094 is now known as xxxxxx.

 

Is there a way to suppress those? These appear for Google Hangouts users,
though not all such, which is odd. All are aliased; I'd have said they were
all set up the same, but something appears to be different.

 

In case anyone wonders, the problem is that this noise makes it easy to miss
actual IMs of significance (typically from my wife, which is Bad).

 

Thanks for any suggestions!