All day Sunday, every 1-3 minutes, I received a spam message via AIM. This didn't happen until I set up an AIMPage. Unless AOL gets this figured out, AIMPages is going to be a colossal failure. This is absolutely unacceptable.
UPDATE (5/24/06): Turning off the contact information on my page drastically reduced the amount of spam I was getting. I'm now down to about 5 a day total, where as I was completely inundated prior. Without looking into AIMPages, I'd imagine they could bury the link in JS a bit. If spammers are going to farm the screennames, might as well make it hard on them. Then again, considering the url of the page is my screenname itself, it's only a matter of time before they start pulling from that. I guess I never considered it before, because I had never had to deal with IM spam. It's such a great product, I hope something gets worked out.
UPDATE (5/24/06): Turning off the contact information on my page drastically reduced the amount of spam I was getting. I'm now down to about 5 a day total, where as I was completely inundated prior. Without looking into AIMPages, I'd imagine they could bury the link in JS a bit. If spammers are going to farm the screennames, might as well make it hard on them. Then again, considering the url of the page is my screenname itself, it's only a matter of time before they start pulling from that. I guess I never considered it before, because I had never had to deal with IM spam. It's such a great product, I hope something gets worked out.
So, Kathryn's off to Orange County for the next six months, and I'm off to Orlando for the next two weeks. I look forward to sleeping on Gavin's futon and listening to his roommate make uncomfortably obscene noises in his bedroom... We have a lot of work-work to do, but undoubtedly we'll end up prototyping something rad, or hopefully finish one of our other 