Blocking in Pidgin

[Samuel Thurston, III]

Howdy.

On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Steve Reilly <sfreilly at roadrunner.com> wrote:
> 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.

Anecdotally, as someone who has never advertised my MSN identity
publicly, I can tell you I still have the 3-4/hr spam rate. I think
MSN has some central list of who's online that's publicly accessible.
Interesting fact: using the official client it's nowhere near as bad,
which means that there must be some client level filtering which
pidgin is failing to do.

as a side note, there's an anti-spam plugin for pidgin that requires
senders to answer some easy math question before their messages get
through, although I haven't tried this as asking clients to do this is
a little sketchy.