Help! I'm getting "Add Contact" bombed!

[modboy]

Every day, I get like around 40+ strange users adding me
to their contact lists. I always say NO but it's really
disruptive to have to answer that damned dialog box 30+
times a day. It doesn't help that the dialog box defaults
to YES.

There HAS to be a way to prevent this. Why can't we get
an option for "Do not allow others to add me to their
contact list".

I don't want to kill my Passport account.. how else can I
cope with this problem?

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings,

Actually these "reverse list" requests are by design, there's no way to stop them. Do you
have a really common Passport name or something? (mark@ etc.)
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Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
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All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2005 Jonathan Kay.
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"modboy" > wrote in message
...
> Every day, I get like around 40+ strange users adding me
> to their contact lists. I always say NO but it's really
> disruptive to have to answer that damned dialog box 30+
> times a day. It doesn't help that the dialog box defaults
> to YES.
>
> There HAS to be a way to prevent this. Why can't we get
> an option for "Do not allow others to add me to their
> contact list".
>
> I don't want to kill my Passport account.. how else can I
> cope with this problem?

[modboy]

I didn't think "mod_boy" was that common.
I really think these unwanted contact adds are attempts at
spam. About 50% of them have Thai(or Hindu?) characters
in the name.
The flood of them has slowed down today but I really think
MS should think of way to allow us some degree of control
over this.
I can't believe that there is no solution to this other
than to delete my passport account. I'm sure MS doesn't
really want people doing that on a regular basis.


>-----Original Message-----
>Greetings,
>
>Actually these "reverse list" requests are by design,
there's no way to stop them. Do you
>have a really common Passport name or something? (mark@
etc.)
>____________________________________________
>Jonathan Kay
>Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
>Associate Expert
>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
>Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
>All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2005
Jonathan Kay.
>You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
>
>"modboy" > wrote in
message
...
>> Every day, I get like around 40+ strange users adding me
>> to their contact lists. I always say NO but it's really
>> disruptive to have to answer that damned dialog box 30+
>> times a day. It doesn't help that the dialog box
defaults
>> to YES.
>>
>> There HAS to be a way to prevent this. Why can't we get
>> an option for "Do not allow others to add me to their
>> contact list".
>>
>> I don't want to kill my Passport account.. how else can
I
>> cope with this problem?
>
>
>.
>