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Title:
  Daily "Please Add Me" requests from robots can't be blocked

Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Every day when I log in, I have anywhere between 15-20 robots asking
  me to "Please Add Me".  I always say no (one at a time), and each
  request window goes away as I would expect.  However, the next day, as
  soon as I log in, the exact same requests are there... again.

  My belief is either empathy is not relaying my denial to the server,
  or the requests are coming from robots which enqueue the exact same
  request every night.

  At least 15-20 of them are the exact same daily offenders.  The list
  only seems to be getting longer, with new names appearing around once
  a week.

  The offender requests are presently all coming in through the yahoo
  messenger service.

  Is there any way to block these?  Or are we sure that empathy is
  sending the "permission denied" response to the server?

  Needless to say, this has become a really annoying 5 minute nuisance
  every day.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: empathy 2.34.0-0ubuntu3.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.48-generic 2.6.38.8
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Sep 15 09:18:01 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: empathy
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  XsessionErrors: (empathy:1778): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_new_string: assertion `string != NULL' failed

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