Re: New email list for emergency communications

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Well I could be wrong on this but my understanding is that not adding
> them to contacts does not prevent them from trying to be contacted.
>
> One of the major reasons people are fleeing yahoo messenger (and why I
> dropped it years ago) is the amount of people sending me things like:
>
> SBF18 36/24/36
>
> I am entirely too old to be futzing with that. Not to mention I
> am married and it was likely some man sending the message in the
> first place. Instant messaging is a collaborative work tool for me. I
> don't want to be contacted with:
>
> Hey... your that postgresql dude aren't you?
> Hey... can I ask you a quick autovacuum question, you work with Alvaro
> right?
> Hey... What does Devrim really look like, he sounds cute?

Funny, I had this exact problem with Yahoo and found the answer last
week. In Pidgin under Tools/Privacy, if I choose Yahoo, I can select
"Allow only the users on my buddy list" and that should take care of
troll IM's. Jabber also has that option. I assume all IM tools have
that option.

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