What information are you missing? It should be pretty clear.
Someone changed their name so many times and for every time it created
some popup message
 that it created thousands of popups on my screen, my computer froze up.
I had to kill xwindows.


On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Pedro Villavicencio <pe...@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need
> to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments.
> Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't
> hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report
> you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change
> the Status back to New. Thanks again!.
>
> ** Changed in: pidgin (Ubuntu)
>       Status: Incomplete => Invalid
>
> --
> MSN user name change to often causes msg box overflow and kills client
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/319354
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> Status in “pidgin” package in Ubuntu: Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: pidgin
>
> If the MSN user changes its name too often, then
> there is an error msg that shows up, it does not say which user, just that it 
> was too often.
> If the name continues to change too often, there will be hundreds of such 
> boxes open.
> this is a form of an attack,and can kill the client process and block then 
> entire session.
>
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