> A while ago i changed my email address on accident to
> [email address] on a game website and forgot, when i needed my
> password yesterday i noticed i wasnt able to get it (of course)

> well when i went to register the account [email address] the name
> "wasnt available" but bizarre enough when i did a password recovery on
> the account no account existed.

> since the account is stuck in the database would someone from google
> be able to delete it so i can register the account and access my
> character from the game?

> hjsdasjkjuuttree

> Currently, when you block a contact, it does more than just hide your
> online status.  If you have chat history enabled, it also blocks off
> line chats.  Unfortunately, it does not notify the sender that the
> messaged is rejected, which is the behavior when you send an off line
> chat to someone without chat history enabled.  What this means is the
> contact you block can send you an off line message, think you received
> it, yet you will not.

> Anyone who knows about this fluke this can tell if you have blocked
> them by sending you an off line message and then talking with you
> later about it.  If its clear you did not get the message, then he or
> she will know that they have been blocked, and you are not just simply
> off line.

> The only way to avoid this is to un-enable chat history.  Their off
> line chat attempts will then be rejected just as if you were off line
> without chat history enabled.  In this mode, there is no difference
> between sending an off line chat to a contact who has blocked you or
> one that is simply off line.  Such chats will be rejected each time
> and the sender will be notified that the recipient did not receive the
> chat.

> This behavior should be changed one of two ways.  Either allow blocked
> contacts to send off line chats (they can send email anyway) or notify
> them that the recipient did not receive the chat.  That way they won't
> know if they are blocked or if someone is simply off line and doesn't
> have chat history enabled.

> Well, I agree with you that blocking should mean blocked...However, I
> think you missed the most important point of my post since it was
> buried in a lot of rambling:

> When you block--the behavior is different depending on whether you
> save chats or not.  If you do not, they get a response that the chat
> was not received.  If you save chats, then it tells them that the
> message will be delivered the next time the recipient is online.

> I think they should get the rejection notice either way.

> My comment about offline messages/emails being the similar derives
> from me primarily using gmail chat.  If you log into gmail with
> offline messages pending they are delivered as email.  I can see how
> offline chats from unwanted senders would be much more annoying when
> using the gtalk client.

> Letting the sender think the message got through when it hasn't
> creates a huge problem.  Sometimes you only want to block them because
> you don't want that particular contact to know when you are online.
> They should be notified when the message is not sent, instead of told
> that the message will be delivered.

> Perhaps there should be both a block and "appear offline" feature, one
> would reject all messages, the other would allow offline chats if
> desired.

> On Aug 8, 7:06 am, Numaan wrote:

> > Is this the situation where you are usually in touch (through phone or
> > face to face) with a person but don't want to chat with them over the
> > net?

> > The whole idea of blocking people is that you don't get any message
> > from them at all. Else, they could always send you off line messages
> > and keep annoying you.

> > Instead what you could do is tell whoever it is to send you only
> > emails and just make up a reason why you don't come online anymore. As
> > disabling chat history or allowing off line messages from blocked
> > people has multitudes of disadvantages. Or else, lets wait for google
> > to come up with some better alternative.

> > On Aug 6, 11:24 pm, bluephi197 wrote:

> > > Currently, when you block a contact, it does more than just hide your
> > > online status.  If you have chat history enabled, it also blocks off
> > > line chats.  Unfortunately, it does not notify the sender that the
> > > messaged is rejected, which is the behavior when you send an off line
> > > chat to someone without chat history enabled.  What this means is the
> > > contact you block can send you an off line message, think you received
> > > it, yet you will not.

> > > Anyone who knows about this fluke this can tell if you have blocked
> > > them by sending you an off line message and then talking with you
> > > later about it.  If its clear you did not get the message, then he or
> > > she will know that they have been blocked, and you are not just simply
> > > off line.

> > > The only way to avoid this is to un-enable chat history.  Their off
> > > line chat attempts will then be rejected just as if you were off line
> > > without chat history enabled.  In this mode, there is no difference
> > > between sending an off line chat to a contact who has blocked you or
> > > one that is simply off line.  Such chats will be rejected each time
> > > and the sender will be notified that the recipient did not receive the
> > > chat.

> > > This behavior should be changed one of two ways.  Either allow blocked
> > > contacts to send off line chats (they can send email anyway) or notify
> > > them that the recipient did not receive the chat.  That way they won't
> > > know if they are blocked or if someone is simply off line and doesn't
> > > have chat history enabled.

> The topic pretty much says it all: is it possible to disablesound
> notifications in the Google Talk gadget?

> I disabled thenotificationfrom the "Chat" setting in gmail, but it
> doesn't seem to affect the gadget's behaviour, even after restarting
> it.

> Luc