[Bug 78905] Re: duplicate icq/aim buddies

[Richard Laager]

You could use one account, but you certainly don't have to. Also, I'm
not sure how well the clients on the other end deal with it. The
protocol isn't exactly the same for both services either, so not all
"features"/behavior are unified.

Anyway, I've never heard of Gaim doing this automatically. If you added
them twice, you'd see them twice. Since you said you didn't do that, I'm
not sure what happened... If you mouse over the duplicate buddies, and
look at the account in the tooltip, is one copy of the buddy on each
account or are they duplicated on the same account?

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duplicate icq/aim buddies
https://launchpad.net/bugs/78905