{"id":2524,"date":"2009-11-06T10:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T10:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b.shuttle.de\/hayek\/Hayek\/Jochen\/wp\/blog-en\/2009\/11\/06\/strangers-contacting-me-on-live-messenger\/"},"modified":"2009-11-06T10:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T10:52:00","slug":"strangers-contacting-me-on-live-messenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2009\/11\/06\/strangers-contacting-me-on-live-messenger\/","title":{"rendered":"strangers contacting me on Live Messenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tOn all of my MSN \/ Live Messenger accounts I disallowed, that people not on my contact list, can send me messages. Still I keep getting IMs from strangers. How come???<\/p>\n<p>No, I didn&#8217;t google for this phenomenon. Actually I&#8217;m not sure, how to express this with 3 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bibleserver.com\/text\/ESV\/Tobit5\" class=\"bibleserver extern\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to 5<\/a> words to be put in a Google search, so that I don&#8217;t receive mostly irrelevant hits.<\/p>\n<p>Actually I mostly don&#8217;t use the Live Messenger client itself but <a href=\"http:\/\/pidgin.sf.net\/\">pidgin<\/a>. But of course: the client shouldn&#8217;t make a difference there. (Actually it does, as I found out later during my research. See below!!)<\/p>\n<p>Anybody any idea?<\/p>\n<p>Update: now that I expressed this thing here, I was able to do a Google search (with the title of this story here), and found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computing.net\/answers\/windows-vista\/unwanted-messages-on-wl-messenger\/2881.html\">this<\/a>. Didn&#8217;t help me either, but maybe others will find it helpful.<\/p>\n<p>Another update: looks like actually the client IM software needs to do the blocking, and I found the right settings in pidgin to do that. There is a privacy menu entry (<i>Tools &gt; Privacy<\/i>), and you have to select &#8220;<i>allow only the users on my buddy list<\/i>&#8221; on every single account, if that&#8217;s what you want &#8212; and I certainly do.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On all of my MSN \/ Live Messenger accounts I disallowed, that people not on my contact list, can send me messages. Still I keep getting IMs from strangers. How come??? No, I didn&#8217;t google for this phenomenon. Actually I&#8217;m not sure, how to express this with 3 to 5 words to be put in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[666],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paO0kP-EI","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}