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Originally posted by Felu
First of all, I haven't really seen any one intentionally spamming with advertisements on WLM. Some of those spammed adverts come from people affected with viruses.
Your lucky then. Whatever the reason for it (bots, viruses), I'm fed up with closing 10 - 20 IM windows of rubbish, and would like a script to do it for me.
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Originally posted by Felu
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Originally posted by John Anderton
You could allow users to add addresses themselves if they want as well as check for spam messages coming in from people not in your list.
Please don't do that. People would misuse it. Adding people whom they don't like or someone who has got a virus on their computer, although the person had no intention of spamming at all.
The user has to be able to add to it, perhaps not a "global list", just person inside MSGPlus!. There would just maybe a default one with only a few really common ones.
The script maker could maintain their own list which user's report to and can download into their own list through a simple web database, but yes, this could be less than 100% accurate with false possitives. Of course, it should always check if a person is on their friend list first before applying this filter.
If you friends are on your friend list, no problem, if you get alot of im's from people not on your friend list, just use your own anti-spam filter and not the global one.
Personally, I think it would be better/more effective going by keywords in the IM message, rather than who it's from (except to check they're not on the friend list first). It's not meant to be a user block list or an auto-block adder (though those should certainly be options you can enable, but disabled by default), it's about reading the content of IMs, usually only the first line, and accessing whether it's a message from a friend, or a load of rubbish/spam and auto close the IM and erase it from the chat log (enabled by default, or can be disabled for debug).
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