Re: [Gaim-devel] Re: [gaim] Can we know if a MSN contact is blocked?

[Felipe C. <fel...@gm...>]

On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 19:29:23 -0700, Brian J. Tarricone
<bj...@co...> wrote:
> alexd wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 12:13 +0200, Xan wrote:
> >It would be useful, when blocking somebody from the block button on a
> >chat window and the confirmation message pops up, for gaim to warn the
> >user about the state of their current privacy policy. It can be
> >confusing to have "blocked" somebody 10 times, only to find in the
> >Privacy dialog that you have "Allow all users to contact me" selected.
> >So some kind of warning that the action won't have the expected effect
> >would be nice.
> >
> >
> or, more simply, just Do The Right Thing[tm].  if the user blocks
> someone, and the privacy setting is "allow all users to contact me",
> simply change it to "block only the users below" and be done with it.
> i'm sure there are a few corner cases where this might be undesirable,
> but designing for these cases is IMO a waste of time.

No, in MSN there is the block list and the allow list, a person can't
be on both. So when you block some one then he/she can't be allowed,
so it doesn't matter the privacy setting; the person will be blocked.

-- 
Felipe Contreras