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quote:Originally posted by ___j0k3r___
Hey n3td3v if you couldnt messege anyone not on your friend list alot of people would be agrivated and couldnt get to meet many people plus if you hade to add somebody to messege them they could get your ip so I dont like that idea
sorry but I hade to put my 2 cents in
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If you're talking about Yahoo! Chat via Yahoo! Messenger:
Yahoo! Chat Option 1:
Have IM from none friends list users off by default, (this can be turned on manually by the consumer).
Yahoo! Chat Option 2:
Have a small alert dialog or on the XML chat screen itsself saying "incoming message from non-friend, do you want to read or discard this message", and if the user wishes to read the message, he or she clicks on a "+" or "read" to expand the message, or simply click discard to discard the message, or ignore to perm ignore.
XML Example:
*** Incoming IM from non-friend "n3td3v". [read], [discard], [permanently ignore n3td3v]
Yahoo! Messenger only:
While you are not using Yahoo! Chat on Yahoo! Messenger, no incoming message alerts should appear from non-friends. While a user is just on Yahoo! Messenger, is usually a time a consumer wishes peace with his or hers friends list, and doesn't really want uninvited IM, which alot of the time is spam, phishing, or malicious code, or harssment and stalkers. (this default IM off to non-friends on Yahoo! Messenger only can also be changed manually by the consumer).
OK, so scraping non-friends altogether wasn't a popular idea but yeah.. the above should work fine.
Its all about giving a consumer maximum control and flexibility over non-friend based incoming IM.
Perhaps even, Yahoo! Messenger could have a "trusted non-friends list". A consumer can add trusted non-friends to a list to recieve incoming IM, and perhaps if the consumer messages the non-friend first, then the non-friend is automatically added to the non-friend trusted list. You would be able to add users to the trusted list, in the same way as you add people to the ignore list, but would be a "trusted non-friends list", rather than an ignore list.