I think this would be a nice hack, and also it would be great if you could see a users buddylist in his profile.

Can we say invasion of Privacy?

seconded, wayne. :) I was gonna say I'd try to work on something like this, but it's too much of that.

Ok well a user can choose in options if they want to show their buddylist or not.

Why would anyone want to show their buddy list in public?

Also, I don't really see the point of requiring authorization.

Adding someone to your buddy list doesn't mean you can do any more relating to them than you can if you dont add them. Either way you can email, PM them etc.
Perhaps in the future it could evolve into an option "only accept PMs from people on my buddy list" but I'm not sure that would be very appropriate either.

I disagree with you JamesUS.

The point of the buddy list primarily is to see who is online right now among your friends.

If I am on invisible mode, I might still agree that you, and only you, will know when I am online.

Hence the authorisation.

Just like requesting to add someone to your ICQ list.

I can see the authorization part.. I just can't see showing your list off to everyone or providing the option.

ok wluke I wasn't talking about THAT, only responding to JamesUS.

The idea to publicly display users' buddy list in their profile sounds abhorrent to me personally.

Well the reason for this is that im building a more of a community script and less forum, im customizing vbulletin so that it will be more talking to special friends and not in the usuall forum, for that im going to add guestbook for every user etc. So like i asked, can anybody do this?