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Yahoo IM Spam

I have IM accounts on Yahoo, AOL and MSN. Actually I use the AOL by far the most, but I have an occasional correspondent on Yahoo and MSN. By the way, on Mac OS X, I use the terrific client "Adium" which talks all those protocols, and is free. It is a nice UI on to the well known GAIM (GNU AIM) open source project.

Almost daily I get one or two new IM pings from unknown people, or more likely, robots, with some kind of a spam element, which I have to block to stop.

The weird thing is, the IM Spam is always from Yahoo, never from AOL or MSN. Are they doing something different?

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That's funny, all my IM spam comes on AIM.

The Yahoo client for OS X (and presumably for Windows) has a preference setting "Accept web instant messages only from my friends". I dunno whether Adium exposes that or not.

Posted by: Jeff Carroll | June 25, 2005 02:36 PM

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