Please describe the problem:
I think it's a serious problem with Empathy that there is no option to prevent conversations being logged, as there is in Pidgin. It would be good to have:

1) A general option to turn off logging altogether on the user's own computer
1a) An option to keep the current conversation from being recorded on the user's own computer
2) A button to erase all conversation history stored on the user's own computer
3) A function (in the "view previous conversations" window) for deleting past conversations with individual
contacts

It seems to me socially inappropriate to record all my conversations with my friends, and this is particularly true of IM and phone conversations, where people may not know that what they say is being recorded. It would therefore be good to have the option of turning this off.

Debateably, it might also be good to warn the user that the program is logging their conversation, and that they can turn the "feature" off if they so desire.

I'm using Empathy 2.26.1 on Ubuntu Jaunty.

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