Question: I was wondering if somebody knows how the msn contact list protocol has changed. More specifically: in the old Messenger, if I deleted a contact, I couldn't "completely" delete it using the list that was found under options -> privacy, *unless* that contact had deleted me as well. As a result, even if I deleted a contact, I could still get a lot of unwanted e-mail from him (i.e., massive forwards).

I have very few contacts under a new address now, and I've noticed that I haven't got that kind of spam from a couple of contacts I've deleted. So my questions are:

1) In the new protocol, if I delete a contact, is it *really* deleted (I guess this means deleted from the server too), unlike in the old protocol?

2) If I delete a contact but he doesn't delete me, can I still receive e-mail from him, or does hotmail finally understands now that that's unwanted email?

Thank you very much.

Answer: 
You can use Irssi's `-n` option to specify your nick:

```
irssi -n test123

```

Or you can go to the bottom of your `$HOME/.irssi/config` file and in the `settings` section, change the entry "nick".
You can use the command:

```
irssi -n nickname1234 

```

and to change the default nickname after you are connected

`/SET default_nick = <nick>`, defaults to `user_name`

`/SET alternate_nick = <nick>`, defaults to `<default_nick>`

`/SET user_name = <user>`, defaults to your login name

`/SET real_name = <name>`, taken from `/etc/passwd` by default