Blocking in Pidgin

[Liam Proven]

2009/7/5 Steve Reilly <sfreilly at roadrunner.com>:
> Liam Proven wrote:
>> I get loads of MSN spim these days. At least 3-4/hr, sometimes dozens
>> an hour, all the time I'm online.
>
> never used msn but, i can say yahoo is a hundred times worse than that....
>>
>> Is there any way of blocking MSN spammers?
>> Ideas? Hints? Suggestions?
>>
> just a tip, i certainly wouldnt be advertising the info you have in your
> sig lines on a public email ist, its inviting spam from all directions.

Well, true, yes, but as a freelance type, I want my info to be out
there and readily Google-able.

I have several layers of email spam filtering, and such spam is no
longer a problem for me, but on IM, there is less filtering available.


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