I fired up Trillian this morning, as I usually do once we’re out of the morning meeting or huddle at work, and immediately for every contact I chat with using Google’s system I started getting a slew of “error” messages, several at once every couple of minutes:
“This conversation is no longer off the record.”
That’s funny, I don’t remember ever going off the record to begin with… let alone several times per second.
It took some digging around Trillian’s forums, but I found the problem: Did you know that, by default, Google Talk chats are logged by Google?
No, I didn’t either. And I don’t want them logged.
If you feel the same way, go into your GMail web interface, click Settings, then go to the Chat settings and select “Never save chat history,” and Save Changes. This will also keep 3rd party chat clients from going nuts from time to time, apparently…
UPDATE: As the lovely Kylanath points out, you then probably want to go to the Chat “folder” in GMail and blow out everything in there. You may be amazed at how many are in there. Then, empty your Trash.