[Wocky] access to see a new user's presence

[Greg Hudson]

You may be correct that adding a contact before they first log into
jabber.mit.edu results in the initial request being black-holed.

Pidgin has a "re-request authorization" right-click menu option on
contacts.  I don't know if Adium has one as well.

On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 18:04 -0500, Ken Raeburn wrote:
> Is there some trick to when you can add a contact and have them  
> eventually get prompted to grant permission for you to see them online?
> 
> I ran into a situation today where I had added someone a few days  
> ago, and today was the first time she signed on to the mit.edu jabber  
> server.  When she did, she didn't get prompted, but I deleted her  
> from my contact list and re-added her, and then she did.  Was this  
> just a random hiccup, or do you generally have to wait until someone  
> has signed on at least once before you can add them as a contact?  Do  
> the Jabber accounts not exist (on the mit.edu server setup) before  
> the first sign-on, so that my adding a non-existent contact gets some  
> special, lame treatment?
> 
> I've got quite a few contacts I added because I just copied their  
> names over from my Zephyr .anyone file, and if I have to go back and  
> figure out which ones I should delete because they haven't signed on  
> ever, or didn't before I added them, that'll be a real pain.  I  
> understand the privacy issue involved in figuring out which accounts  
> those might be from data on the server.  I could just delete and re- 
> add all the @mit.edu contacts I don't recall having seen on Jabber,  
> but it's not clear to me if that has any annoying side effects, like  
> revoking their access to see me online, or re-prompting them if  
> they've already chosen to deny me access to see them, or  
> something....  (Can I just re-add them without deleting them?  Would  
> that work?)
> 
> Ken
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