I got an email from someonelikesyou.com some time ago. Since I own my own domain, I made up a number of ficticious email addresses. Suprise, suprise! Those email addresses shortly started receiving a lot of spam, as well as continued "some one likes you" messages even after I followed their procedures for removing the addresses.
> Why not marshall all the protocols together on the client end? MSN, Yahoo!, AIM... whatever.
Take a look at Everybuddy. This is a great Unix program that does exactly that. Many bells and whistles, too (like spell checking). No plans for a non-Unix version.
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I got an email from someonelikesyou.com some time ago. Since I own my own domain, I made up a number of ficticious email addresses. Suprise, suprise! Those email addresses shortly started receiving a lot of spam, as well as continued "some one likes you" messages even after I followed their procedures for removing the addresses.
Take a look at Everybuddy. This is a great Unix program that does exactly that. Many bells and whistles, too (like spell checking). No plans for a non-Unix version.