Re: [Gaim-devel] Thoughts on privacy stuff

[Luke S. <lsc...@us...>]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 05:53:49PM -0500, Colin Barrett wrote:
> On Mar 2, 2005, at 4:26 PM, Luke Schierer wrote:
> 
> >block: prevent a person from seeing and writing you. This implies that
> >the default is to let anyone see and write you.
> 
> If this is the case, then how would a "block all" option be useful at 
> all? Couldn't you just disconnect the account and achieve the same 
> effect?

I don't see much use for it, but it is an option in aim at least. It 
isn't necessarily one we need to implement, but it would be the 
defacto state if you go to "allow below" with an empty list. I think 
the "block all"/"allow below" option pair is essentially a "block by 
default," which is reasonable, vrs "allow all"/"deny below" which is 
an "allow by default" which is also reasonable.  the primary 
difference in reasonability is that "block all" is probly not what you 
intended while "allow all" might be.  still, I think we should have 
some way to switch to "block by default" as at least one protocol 
supports it.

luke