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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: New email list for emergency communications
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:24:28 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

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.

-- 
  Bruce Momjian  <[email protected]>        http://momjian.us
  EnterpriseDB                             http://postgres.enterprisedb.com

  + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +

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