AOL Instant Messenger. Y’all are using it.
You randomly get an IM from <adjective>coho or trout or salmon. It’s nonsensical but you reply to it out of curiosity. Then you find out the person on the other end is some random AIM user. It’s annoying as all hell. Your block list is probably long, and it doesn’t even matter because it changes its name every time!
HOW DO YOU STOP THE DAMN AIM COHO BOTS?
Thanks to some info from Morouxshi, it’s actually really easy to stop the bots:
When that stupid thing IMs you respond to it with
$optout
It will ask you to respond with something like ‘$optout blah’ and once you do that it will stop sending you IMs.
Some known AIM bot names (to help with people searching this problem):
- clingycoho
- sinistercoho
- surefootedcoho
- toroidalcoho
- passedoutcoho
- racingcoho
- bipolarcoho
- ingeniouscoho
- analyzedcoho
- merrycoho
- bisexualcoho (haha what?)
- nieceofacoho
- witchycoho
- welltimedcoho
- infuriatedcoho
- puritanicalcoho
- fiercetrout
- dramaticcoho
- swabbedcoho
- brunchingcoho
- xenophobiccoho
- stupendouscoho
- alchemicalcoho
- lopsidedcoho
- varyingcoho
- roudingcoho
- immoveablecoho
- cateredcoho
- lilliputiancoho
- falsifiedcoho
- affectionatecoho
- liberalcoho
Edythe
April 22, 2009 at 4:58 am
Well written article.
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coho
October 19, 2009 at 12:57 pm
email this addres to complain about these stupid IM’s projectupstream@gmail.com
Michael
January 24, 2010 at 2:52 pm
Hahaha! Humans are naturally social beings. It’s sad that you find meeting new people “annoying as all hell”.
Bruce
May 19, 2010 at 2:43 pm
Hahaha! Humans are naturally social beings. It’s sad that you find meeting new people “annoying as all hell”.