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Instant Message Block

 Block all those porn messages
 
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lilgirl417:>Hi.... Wanna Chat? :0) fogfreak:>H... (Whoosh) lilgirl417:>Oops! Gotta go! But you can check out my webcam at http://www.nastysluts.com

I get at least ten of those a day. Instant Message Block would be a program that blocks both the usernames of known porn pushers and the incoming messages. For instance, 90% of the messages use the greeting that I listed above, but from thousands of different names. The program would update its database every time you logged on. If, per chance, an innocent person wanting to talk sends you the same greeting, the programs simply responds to them and tells them that it blocked their message and why. (P.S., The link I gave above probably does exist, although I've never been there, and wouldn't recommend trying it.)

—fogfreak, Jan 26 2003

ICQ method http://web.icq.com/...faq/1,,1710,00.html
"To receive ICQ events only from users on your Contact List, select the Only users on my Contact List option in your ICQ Security & Privacy Permissions dialog." [krelnik, Oct 04 2004]

Yahoo method http://help.yahoo.c...esg/use/use-05.html
"you can choose to ignore anyone who is not already on your Friend List" [krelnik, Oct 04 2004]

MSN method http://messenger.ms...tures3.asp?client=1
"Want to block instant messages from people you don’t know? MSN Messenger detects when a message is from someone who is not on your contact list and asks you if you want to accept the message or not. You decide who to let in and who to keep out." [krelnik, Oct 04 2004]

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       Stop hanging around porn sites.
—UnaBubba, Jan 27 2003
   

       Maybe you need something like a web of trust. You list everyone you know, they list everyone they know and so on. If the person trying to talk to you isn't on someone's list within seven hops of you then your IM system ignores them. You could combine this with a blacklist where people who put spammers on their list are ignored.
—st3f, Jan 27 2003
   

       Are you talking about Netsend (where you get a little pop-up window which looks like a regular dialog box) or Yahoo!/AOL/MSN Instant Messaging?
—hippo, Jan 27 2003
   

       Very baked. Just about every IM service I know of has a Privacy feature where you can make it so that NOBODY can message you unless they are already on your buddy list. Turn this feature on. Unless your best friend is a porn spammer, you shouldn't get any more of these messages.   

       [reensure] I think your link is concerned with something else entirely. fogfreak is talking about Instant Messages here, not popup browser windows.
—krelnik, Jan 27 2003
   

       [sleepygrass] What, no link?   

       Actually I tried chatting back to some of these porn spammers on ICQ a few times, they are robots and don't respond after they've delivered the critical URL.   

       Oh another thing be sure to do if you use ICQ: turn OFF the "web presence" feature. Some of the spammers have bots that use it.
—krelnik, Jan 27 2003
   

       jutta, krelnik: Actually this idea started the train of thought. Initially, I was just chuckling over the idea of web bots striking up conversations with other web bots, both trying to snare what they perceived as a human at the other end of the conversation.
—st3f, Jan 27 2003
   
      
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