Disable WebAware, to hopefully reduce spam

[anonymous]

I noticed that I started getting much more spam when I started using bitlbee, apparently bitlbee automatically sets the WEBAWARE flag when changing status. I've written a small patch, which disables this flag and thus, hopefully, reduces the amount of spam.

diff -Naur bitlbee-1.0.1/protocols/oscar/service.c bitlbee-1.0.1-nowebaware/protocols/oscar/service.c
--- bitlbee-1.0.1/protocols/oscar/service.c     2005-11-18 01:17:06.000000000 +0100
+++ bitlbee-1.0.1-nowebaware/protocols/oscar/service.c  2006-03-31 12:59:55.000000000 +0200
@@ -732,7 +732,7 @@
	guint32 data;
	int tlvlen;

-	data = AIM_ICQ_STATE_WEBAWARE | AIM_ICQ_STATE_HIDEIP | status; /* yay for error checking ;^) */
+	data = AIM_ICQ_STATE_HIDEIP | status; /* yay for error checking ;^) */

	tlvlen = aim_addtlvtochain32(&tl, 0x0006, data);

[jsuelwald@…]

Could this be implemented as a seting, changeable by a user?

[wilmer]

Yes, I'm thinking about that too. Should try to find a nice way to do that, especially since I want to keep BitlBee structures separated from the IM-modules. So just adding a setting is not the way to go.. :-/

[wilmer]

At least I'm trying out this patch at home to see if it stops spam for me too, thanks for the hint. :-)

But I can imagine some people want to keep this functionality, especially if they're one of the lucky (unspammed) ones.

[wilmer]

This one actually got imported in [160]. Thanks a lot for the idea!