I just released a plugin for Gaim 1.0.2 that blocks arbitrary instant messages based on a set of filters that you can define. I created it to block the extremely annoying “AOL System Msg: Your screen name (x) is now signed into AOL(R) Instant Messenger(TM) in 2 locations.” You can download it from the Gaim Sourceforge plugin tracker.

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1. nissa on 2006-10-27 14:57:39 wrote: Will this block AOL system msg on my computer as well as the computer in the other location?

2. John on 2006-10-27 15:47:15 wrote: Just yours. And this probably won’t work on any modern versions of Gaim since they’ve changed the Perl plugin support.

3. Hari on 2007-05-18 08:56:39 wrote: Do you plan to update this plugin to work with the newer version of gaim? I am extremely annoyed too and having to see this several times a day currently because of the way I switch internet connections between wired/wireless/vpn etc., and this plugin will be of great help to me. Thanks.

4. John on 2007-05-18 09:16:02 wrote: No. Last I heard, Gaim (Pidgin) had dropped Perl extension support and I haven’t got the time to update it.

5. Hari on 2007-06-01 08:30:14 wrote: As of the latest Pidgin (2.0.1), the perl plugin support still exists. I tried your plugin after updating it to use some of the new API and could see it listed in the plugins page, but enabling doesn’t really seem to work. I don’t even get any debug messages. The event name might have changed, but I expected at least the debug message from the plugin_init() (and plugin_load() when enabled) to have appeared, but I didn’t see any messages at all. NOTE: Using process explorer, I could confirm that pidgin loads up perl58.dll from my activestate perl installation.

6. hari on 2007-06-04 19:30:58 wrote: For anyone interested in a version that works on Pidgin 2.0.1, I uploaded a version onto the plugin tracker. Find it here: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1731121&group_id=235&atid=390395