GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 599337
Personal Information for AIM does not persist for even a few minutes
Last modified: 2010-12-15 01:48:44 UTC
Personal information for AIM buddies in empathy do not persist more than a few minutes, and in some cases cannot be changed at all. By personal information, I am referring to alias and groups. Aliases default to the screenname of the user.
Sounds like a telepathy-haze bug. Please report it on https://bugs.freedesktop.org/
I reported it. The bug report is here: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24707
I'm hitting this (and have been for ages) with Jabber too; I punch in an Alias for myself under "personal information", and next [session?] it's reverted to showing my JID. AfC