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From: krajicek at ics.muni.cz (Ondrej Krajicek)
Subject: MSN Contact Blacklisting

On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 11:15:37PM +0100, Jon wrote:
> I guess you could write a program that acts like a proxy between the msn
> client and server.
> It would then be easy to filter out certain contacts from the list.

Wouldn't it be easier then to abandon MSN and use (say) Jabber?
It uses XML-based protocol (thus is easy
to extend/filter/modify), has open-source implementation
and gateways for all major IM players. We are currently using
it for private conferencing via SSL and are happy with it.

Ondra

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|Ondrej Krajicek                                                 (-KO|
|Institute of Computer Science, Masaryk University Brno, CR          |
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