Blocking in Pidgin

[Samuel Thurston, III]

Hey there again,

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:44 AM, David Gerard<dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/7/6 Samuel Thurston, III <sam.thurston at gmail.com>:
>
>> 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.
>
>
> And asking this of the typical MSN user will get "LOL I DUNNO", "MATHS
> IS HARD LETS GO SHOPPING" or "OUT OF FINGERS ERROR REDO FROM START".
> In caps.
>

While I can't disagree about "typical users," all of my MSN contacts
are educated, insightful and interesting people who just happen to use
a crappy messaging protocol.  My take on it is more along the lines
that unless the math question were a simple integration or "rewrite
ohm's law in terms of R" that they would probably find it insulting.

Nevertheless I think your comments are unconstructive and contributory
to the "linux user as elitist" meme which I don't think ultimately
helps the community.  It's a shame they will be in the archive for
perpetuity.  I hope they are not taken as representative of the "linux
mindset" by any of the <sarcasm>irrelevant pleebs</sarcasm> that
haven't adopted Ubuntu as their sole operating system of preference.

Kinda funny though.