Blocking in Pidgin

[Liam Proven]

2009/7/6 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> 2009/7/6 Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>:
>> 2009/7/5 Steve Reilly <sfreilly at roadrunner.com>:
>
>>> 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 even have my phone number on the world wide wub (it's +44 7733 223
> 584, if anyone cares) and I basically get negligible numbers of idiot
> calls. (The ones I do get are usually Wikipedia-related thus arguably
> on-topic.) The closest I've had was late last year, when someone
> Rickrolled me by phone. When you're famous on the Internet, your phone
> is fine to have out there, strange but true.
>
> (I pretty much always let it go to message anyway. The asynchronous
> nature of email, that's the life for me. I only have IM at all because
> it's built into Gmail.)

Yup, that's basically my attitude too.

Trying to keep contact info on a need-to-know basis is *so* 1980s, daaahlinks!

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