Pidgin WIBNI or option I'm just not finding

[Eion Robb]

Sorry about that. Behind the scenes there's two different buddy lists on
Hangouts and they end up fighting with each other when the account
reconnects

As a workaround, you can use
https://github.com/EionRobb/pidgin-ignore-nickchange which suppresses those
messages

On Thu, 15 Apr 2021, 01:58 Phil Smith III, <lists at akphs.com> wrote:

> 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!
>
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