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By: John

John — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:42:00 +0000

I’m having the same issues with this plugin. Running Pidgin 2.5.4 in XP. Please update us if you receive any feedback from the developer. I have an additional issue which is that even after I click to close the popup alert, the unknown contact still gets added to my “Not In List” section of my Buddy List and I have to manually remove each one of them. This is very time consuming.

What I suspect most users want is a silent killer plugin which denies all unauthorised requests and drops the them *SILENTLY* without any popup or alerts. Just drop them and shred them to bits without ever letting me know.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:26:16 +0000

Is there any update on fixing the alert. It’s a great idea that’s unfortunately rendered useless as I have to close a window each time a spammer (or at least someone not in my contact list) tries to IM me. Atleast I don’t get an alert sound, but it’s not useful in it’s current state. FOr me at any rate

By: Mark O'Neill

Mark O'Neill — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:00:38 +0000

Double-click the exe file and install. Then go into your Pidgin Tools–>Plugins and find Bot Sentry. Click on it and turn it on. You can also go into the preferences and modify it including specifying the question and answer.

That’s it.

Oh and I removed the verbal abuse from your comment. There was no need for all of that. Come on, grow up.

By: Dumbass

Dumbass — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:38:42 +0000

So how do you install it?

Isn’t there a simple process where I can double click something and have it install itself?

Seriously…

By: doorknob60

doorknob60 — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:55:54 +0000

Woot, just found out about this linked form The Mark Pack. It’s a simple yet effective way to stop spambots

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 07:46:38 +0000

Yea its from MSN as well. That seems to be the main problem. I recently did the same thing as well. But it annoys me that anyone who wants to contact me via MSN will have to contact me via other means first so i can add them to my buddy list. Oh well. Annoying messages are gone. Thats all that matters. (Yes it works for me as well)

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:59:30 +0000

What service are you getting them from? I get them from MSN. I just decided to block anyone who isn’t on my contact list on MSN, and it works fine so far.

By: Lord Zeon

Lord Zeon — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:45:22 +0000

Same as everyone else. Dunno why this happens with pidgin either, I’ve never gotten spam bots like this using Trillian…

By: Adam bolte

Adam bolte — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:04:27 +0000

Same issue here using Ubuntu 8.10. Very frustrating.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:25:14 +0000

I’m getting the same problem – Anyone figure something out yet?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:14:26 +0000

Anybody filed a support ticket / bug report?

By: bd

bd — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:36:31 +0000

I’m getting the same thing too

By: youdontmeanmuch

youdontmeanmuch — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 03:27:17 +0000

Anything on that, I’m receiving the same message.

By: Mark O'Neill

Mark O'Neill — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:48:32 +0000

OK, that’s what the other side is seeing and you should NOT be seeing that. I don’t see that on my screen so I don’t understand why you see that on yours.

I am going to try and contact the developer of Bot Sentry and see if he can address this issue. This is really bothering me now.

By: ted

ted — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:33:42 +0000

Yeah I would agree that this is useless if I keep getting a window that I have to close. My windows however say the following:
(10/29/2008 4:29:36 PM) Message could not be sent because an error with the switchboard occurred:
Bot Sentry engaged: you are now being ignored! Your message will be delivered if you can correctly answer the following question within 10 minutes: How do you spell 10?

If there was a way to make these go away then I’d be happy as can be. However, I haven’t been able to find any other solution to this and figured I’d try to give this a try.

By: Mark O'Neill

Mark O'Neill — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:44:49 +0000

I have never received a conversation window to tell me that it has blocked a spam. This is completely new news to me. In all the time that I have used this (and it must be two years now), I have never once received any kind of notification.

By: Jocko

Jocko — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:58:01 +0000

Agreed, this is useless if you still have to close a window.

By: Vik

Vik — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:36:35 +0000

I agree with Mario. Is there a way to not open a conversation and notify me that i blocked something? If that is done, this plugin is perfect and should be included in the Pidgin distribution.

By: Mario

Mario — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:23:07 +0000

I cant really see the usefulness of this plugin because every time it blocks a spam it still opens a conversation to tell me that it blocked something and is just as annoying as the spam. Whats the difference in closing the spam message or having to close the bot sentry message? Unless I am missing a way to turn off the blocked messages.

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Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:22:53 +0000

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Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:52:29 +0000

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By: Robb Topolski

Robb Topolski — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:08:03 +0000

Thank you. Why the hell is this extremely useful plugin missing from pidgin.im’s webpages? I love it!

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Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:33:40 +0000

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