Comment 31 for bug 480605

Another verification. Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit. Empathy 2.30.2. Only Yahoo, so far, and successfully worked-around via web messenger suggestion provided above.

This seems to reflect the broader issue of Empathy lacking any capacity to block unwanted/spam contacts, a bug that has been known for several years now and remains unfixed (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi). It stands to reason that a "block list" or proper integration with the blocking features that all IM services provide, such as is present in Pidgin and other clients, would likely render this issue moot.

Cheers,
Jeremy