I use two IM programs at once. iChat and Adium<\/p>\n
Yes, for those who haven’t figured it out yet… I am a Mac person.<\/p>\n
I use iChat for my primary AIM account. I use Adium for all my other accts: yahoo, msn, ICQ, private AIM, lurking accts. No… I do not have an IM account as a 14 year old girl. (Shudder, those people scare me)<\/p>\n
Since ICQ has “Authenticate to add” requirements for seeing a person’s online status, I will occasionally get random auth requests. My policy, is that I don’t add anyone I wouldn’t be interested in talking to. Now, the auth request will often include a message. For example, “Thanks for the chat, here’s the auth request you said I could send.”<\/p>\n
Today I got another random auth request. The message was along the lines of (actual link read and promptly forgotten):<\/p>\n
User 153#8#4# is requesting authentication: The message is:
\n“http:\/\/some.extreme.spamsite\/linktosomething\/unsolicited.php”<\/p>\n
I like Adium\/ICQ because you not only can deny authentication, but you can send a message back as well explaining the denial.<\/p>\n
So… feeling extremely gregarious<\/em> (and for those who know me really well there will be some humour in the irony of me choosing that word), I sent a simple explanation as to why I was denying authentication:<\/p>\n Spam spam spam. Die die die. Please log off and never use a computer again, you are a child with no sense of what the Internet is to be used for.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n All the while envisioning Ling Ling<\/a> (from “Drawn Together”) attacking. Which has now been added as a new icon<\/a> for future posts.<\/p>\nShare this:<\/h3>