Instant Messenger

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?