How not to show user name beside each consecutive message

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Published on 2013-10-26T03:54:08Z Indexed on 2013/10/26 3:57 UTC
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After years on GTalk, I recently switched to Pidgin for my IM needs. Almost all is ok with me, though there's on thing that bugs me. It shows the name of the author beside each consecutive message.

e.g.

joce: Hey
joce: Long time no see!
joce: How are you?
Bob: Hey!
Bob: Indeed!

Instead of (as it is in GTalk):

joce: Hey
 Long time no see!
 How are you?
bob: Hey!
 Indeed!

Is there a setting that I've missed or a plugin that could do that for me?

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