In my Empathy preferences, I have unticked "Enable notifications when a contact comes online". Still, contacts appear in the indicator-messages menu when they come online. Not only do I not wish this, but it also means that the menu gets invalidated rather frequently (since I have Facebook contacts on my list, which tend to log on and off frequently), thus preventing me from getting to newly received messages in a timely fashion.
In my Empathy preferences, I have unticked "Enable notifications when a contact comes online". Still, contacts appear in the indicator-messages menu when they come online. Not only do I not wish this, but it also means that the menu gets invalidated rather frequently (since I have Facebook contacts on my list, which tend to log on and off frequently), thus preventing me from getting to newly received messages in a timely fashion.