From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Message-Id: <200803242124.m2OLOSr13383@momjian.us>
Subject: Re: New email list for emergency communications
In-Reply-To: <20080324133621.651678f0@commandprompt.com>
To: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:24:28 -0400 (EDT)
CC: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>,
	"Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum" <adsmail@wars-nicht.de>, pgsql-www@postgresql.org
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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.

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