GTalk 'Blocking' some Messages

[Mary Williamson]

I've created an XMPP chat client in python. Chat generally works except it seems that Google Talk 'blocks' some messages when sending from my chat client to a user using Google Talk. For example, if I send the same one word message 'hi' multiple times to gtalk user, GTalk only displays it once. However, when sending that same sequence of messages to a user on iChat or on Adium, all of the 'hi's get shown. Sometimes, Google Talk also doesn't display the first 1-2 incoming messages from my client.

Otherwise, chatting works. My client never has any trouble with incoming chats. Why would GTalk display this behavior?

[ObjColumnist]

Like Twitter it is probably just stopping duplicate messages.