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".
In a terminal, go to the user home directory and `cd` into the *.irssi* directory.

Then

```
touch config

```

Paste in the following:

```json
servers = (
  {
    address = "irc.freenode.net";
    chatnet = "freenode";
    port = "6667";
    use_ssl = "no";
    ssl_verify = "no";
    autoconnect = "yes";
  }
);

chatnets = {
  Freenode = {
    type = "IRC";
    autosendcmd = "/msg nickserv identify yourname yourpass";
  };
};

channels = (
  { name = "#test-channel"; chatnet = "Freenode"; autojoin = "Yes"; }
  { name = "#private-test-channel"; chatnet = "Freenode"; password = "yourpass"; autojoin = "Yes"; }
);

settings = {
  core = { real_name = "real name"; user_name = "user name"; nick = "yourusername"; };
  "fe-text" = { actlist_sort = "refnum"; term_force_colors = "yes"; scrollback_time = "7day "; };
  "fe-common/core" = { theme = "default"; };
};

```