[JoshuaZ]

Running the latest version of iChat.

So I had to reinstall OS 10.4 a few weeks ago, and having to redo a lot of my settings. For some reason now iChat adds new people to my address book whenever they IM me. I can delete them, but if they IM me back they are re-added. I know I had this issue at one point before, but for the life of me I can't find the option to stop it.

Thanks.

[JoshuaZ]

Bump

[Grrr]

Are you sure its adding them to your address book? Or just adding them to your buddies list? Because that is what it does here, and I just assumed it was supposed to do that. I think it has always done it as far as i can remember.
Its still a bit of an oddity however, because iChat is not properly adding people. I found this out because in my ichat security settings, I often have it set to 'Allow people in my buddy list' (meaning only people i have actually added myself can see me as online)
Enabling that causes people that iChat added to my buddy list (but ones i didn't add to the address book) to disappear, or become invisible. In that they don't see me online, and I don't see them either.
Changing it back to 'Allow anyone' causes them all to pop back into my list and show up online again, until i delete them. And so the cycle inevitably repeats..
I don't think its a bug. But still, personally i'd prefer it if it didn't add people to the buddy list itself. And I don't see a way to disable that.

[JoshuaZ]

Ok, so its not just me....

Hmm... for some reason I remember finding a fix to this. But it was a long time ago, and for the life of me I can not remember.

Thanks.

[Grrr]

There is a multitude of iChat add-ons that do all kinds of things.. I think I must have tried the majority of them (Chax is great). But I didn't notice any add-ons that address this issue..

[marc1]

I was told in another forum that if you delete the "Recent Buddies" group from iChat, then people who contact you will not automatically be added.