Instant Messenger

• September 15th, 2008
• Joseph Crawford
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If you have been trying to add me to your contact list on Instant Messenger protocols such as AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, Jabber, etc. and have been getting denied please e-mail me and let me know.  I have been getting overwhelmed with link traders requesting that I just hit deny whenever I see that dialog now.

I guess having your information on the web can be a good and bad thing.  I wish all of these so called “link traders” who can barely speak english would stop contacting me.  I am not sure what link trading does for anyone other than improve the PR of thier website.  I am not about to pay for links as they always try to sucker me into that.  This site gets enough traffic for a personal site and I find that my google listings are quite well.  I am guessing that is due to Wordpress and the nice Google Sitemaps plug-in.

Anyway if you have been having trouble please e-mail me, my intentions are not to block anyone who has a real need to contact me, just sick of the spam, wish I could just block them all with a nice filter.  Maybe someone should create a blocklist like they do for torrents but for IM, your username/ip makes that list whomever has it installed is out of your reach.  I think that is the next improvement for Adium.  What are your thoughts?