StopAddonMessage - WoW AddOns

StopAddonMessage (SAM) is a firewall that lets you prevent addons from sending and receiving hidden messages.

Don't want others knowing you're running a certain addon?
Worried about what addons are broadcasting?
Want to silence a spamming addon?
Receiving You are not in a raid spam in battlegrounds/arenas?
Receiving You are not in a guild spam?

SAM can help.

FAQ:
Q) How does SAM block outgoing messages?
A) SAM hooks SendAddonMessage() and blocks messages from being sent out.
Q) How does SAM block incoming messages?
A) SAM hooks frame's receiving CHAT_MSG_ADDON and blocks them from receiving the event.
Q) Can SAM block visible addon messages like Ding!, auto congratulations and Wintertime?
A) No. SAM deals only with the hidden messages.
Q) Can SAM stop addons from printing text to the chat box?
A) No.
Q) Can SAM stop You are not in a raid from spamming me in battlegrounds?
A) Yes. SAM will block the outgoing message and tell you which addon is causing it.
Q) Can SAM stop You are not in a guild from spamming me too?
A) Yes. And SAM will tell you which addon or prefix is causing that message to appear.
Q) Can I block messages from a specific person?
A) Yes. Enter their name into the names list and their incoming and outgoing messages will be blocked.
Q) Can SAM block other's addons from spamming me?
A) No. But SAM can block your addons from receiving/processing such spam.
Q) Can other's addons spamming me cause me to disconnect?
A) No. Incoming communications will not cause you to DC. If a poorly written addon keeps replying to spam then that could cause flood disconnection.
Q) Should I block inbound messages for addons that I'm not running?
A) No. Only block inbound messages for addons you are running. Otherwise you're not blocking the message from reaching anything.
Q) Why is Add incoming prefixes disabled by default?
A) There's no benefit in blocking messages if you're not also running the addon that receives them. But if you want them in the list, you have the option.
Q) Why is IgnoreMore a optional dependency?
A) IgnoreMore blocks regular chat, but not addon communications. SAM will block addon comm from people you're ignoring using IgnoreMore.

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Cyprias Mar 09, 2010 at 07:36 UTC - 0 likes
Good idea.
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yoshimo Mar 08, 2010 at 21:33 UTC - 0 likes
There is also the "you arent in a GUILD "message, which you might want to add as well to the list of addons being reported by wrong commchannels ;)
In this case i wouldnt need yaiap any more
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Cyprias Jan 18, 2010 at 18:27 UTC - 0 likes
Try the 1.2.5beta. It has a change to how incoming prefixes are added to the list that may fix the spamming problem. I don't turn on Add incoming prefixes so I didn't notice the problem till you brought it up.
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xtoq Jan 18, 2010 at 16:21 UTC - 0 likes
Hey, I have another prefix that says its being added, but isn't being added to my prefix list. Guild Greet, see attached image. Also, as you can see, it adds about 12-15 prefixes (the same one it claims), and does this everytime this guildie logs on. I added him to the ignored list, but he didn't log on again after that, so I'm not sure if it worked. This was last night, with the 1.2.4 version.

By the way, if I need to do additional troubleshooting for this, just let me know, I've just been distracted recently and its all I can do to remember to post things here! (version 1.2.4)

Last edited Jan 18, 2010 by xtoq
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Cyprias Jan 17, 2010 at 23:22 UTC - 0 likes
good to know.
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yoshimo Jan 17, 2010 at 22:59 UTC - 0 likes
in normal situations only 1-3 are used but according to nevcairiel 4-9 are also reserved for internal use.
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Cyprias Jan 17, 2010 at 22:10 UTC - 0 likes
Thanks yoshimo. I hadn't ran into ace's multipart comm msgs so I didn't see it before. Looks like ascii 1,2,3 is used. 1=start,2=middle,3=end

edit: typo

Last edited Jan 17, 2010 by Cyprias
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yoshimo Jan 17, 2010 at 15:57 UTC - 0 likes
I noticed that SAM might have the same problem as my small prefix hunter.
I often noticed it adds prefixes with ?? in it.
this is caused by acecomm3 which uses \001 - \009 as suffixes for multipartmessages.
those are asciicontrolcharacters and are printed as "??" in chat.
I wondered why people using prefix hunter reportet prefixes i already have, only with a "??" appended. Now i know that those were ace3 addons ;)

Quote:
[16:54:03]{SAM} Added outgoing prefix GLDR (??).
[16:54:03]{SAM} Outgoing Allowed> GLDR | GUILD | delle`(10)^N23564616^t^t^^

the character after GLDR is asciicontrolcharacter \001 , called StartOfHeading.

Last edited Jan 17, 2010 by yoshimo
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Cyprias Jan 16, 2010 at 19:05 UTC - 0 likes
Maybe it was broadcasting over guild chat.
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xtoq Jan 16, 2010 at 18:37 UTC - 0 likes
That's fine, but what about 2 hours later when I was alone, not in a party with anyone, and I was still getting spammed by him while he was in an instance? We are guildies, but we were not in a party later, when I finally had to disable SAM because it would just continue telling me all the prefixes. I don't have a screenshot of that, but I can test it later, with the new version if you like.

I meant to say too that Print Messages is off, and has never been turned on. (Yeah I should have realized it STILL print the added messages with that off....muh bad. XD )

EDIT: I'm just curious, I'm not pointing fingers, I am learning lua as I go along, and I'm just not sure why his addon would be communicating with me when we weren't grouped. So I apologize for sounding kinda bitchy; didn't mean to, and I can't really figure out a way to make it sound better! Sorry!

Last edited Jan 16, 2010 by xtoq