Con: "If you catch these people early it actually asks you for permission and has an option to report them as spammers. If you are not around when they sent the request then they get automatically added" - incorrect.
Yes, you do get the window where you can decline them and report them as spammers, but that's all it does, allowing you to not add them and block future invites from them, and report them as spammers (which they are).
But it doesn't do squat about -them- adding -you- to their contacts.
I have experienced this for the past 4 weeks now, I'll get these spammers asking to be added when I'm offline and when I'm online, online I immediately catch them, block them and report them, yet in my mailbox there is still that message that they have added me to their list.
And it's always the same types of messages that they send when asking me to add them - a vhello with an intreoduction of some lonely "girl" (yeah, right) who just bought new panties and felt the need to tell a totally random stranger on MSN about it, or somew unknown, distant humanitarian who suddenly feels the need to help some stranger in a far away country find a new/better job... Microsoft needs to get on trhe ball, seriously, to stop this crap because frankly nothing ****es me off more than trying to have a conversation with a friend or my girlfriend, and getting between twenty and thirty of these windows pop up in an hour to an hour and a half...
Yahoo has been doing at least that right for years now - someone wants top add you, YOU get to decide whether or not you want to be on their lists.
Sure, Yahoo is still full of other spam-holes, but point in case is that there, as with countless other messenger/voip programs, you are in charge of which list you end up on, and not the damned spammers.
And on top of that, at least from what I know of Yahoo, they have actual privacy settings allowing you to set it so spammers can't even find you the "easy" way, and if they do find you, that they can't add you to their contacts (though they still harvest your e-mail address).
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