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Mark Shuttleworth wrote:

> 
> A big part of our job in putting together the messaging indicator is
> figuring out how to "defend the usability" of something that can be
> messed up by a rogue app. For example, if an app spams the messaging
> indicator, it spoils it for all the other apps. 
> 
> Mark
> 

I think adding an initial dialogue before allowing the site to use the
indicator applet
 "Allow / deny www.site.com to display updates via indicator applet"
should be considered.

With an easy way to revoke the permissions later if the user find the
site spamming.

these two features should help in weeding out bad sites.

cheers,
mac_v