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Blocking content-based spam in iChat
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bojangles
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Jan 10, 2011, 09:44 AM
 
I’ve got a tough one here. My wife and I are trying to adopt, which means we’re putting out every contact method we can think of—including our chat handles. While all was well for about a year, somebody has obviously found our handle and is using it to spam us incessantly.

I know I can set iChat’s Security to “Block specific people,” but that doesn’t help because the spam comes from a different account, every time. I can also set it to “Allow specific people,” but then we might as well delete the account altogether. Obviously, we want people we don’t know to be able to contact us.

Is there any solution out there that can block spim by content, e.g. “block any message that contains the word ‘droid,’ ” etc.?

Thank you!
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