Block contacts in contacts list

[nomnex]

Binary package hint: empathy

This is not a bug but a feature request.
Empathy does not allow to block contacts in the contacts list on version 2.28.x up to version 2.30.x

Let's say I have X (account msn), Y (account yahoo), Z (account jabber) contacts in my contacts list.
I want to chat with X & Y, X excluded: this can not be done.
Needless to say, being unable to be selectively available is a privacy concern.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Apr 26 10:53:19 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: empathy 2.28.1.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.58-generic
SourcePackage: empathy
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic i686

[nomnex (nomnex)]

I have openned a bug report on Bugzilla
Title: block contacts in your contacts list
URL: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/post_bug.cgi

Bug #557521 address a similar issue, but it is limited to MSN contacts and it is marked as incomplete

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thanks for taking time to report this bug and helping to make ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported but feel free to report any other bugs you may find.