So, I've been hearing it all day, "John, we're dying to know your iChat/AIM/Instant Messaging policy! Why must you constantly keep us in the dark?"

So, being the benevolent dictator, from September 16, 2005:

• Anything you say can, and will be held against you
• I will distort, fabricate, and otherwise change your words so that if makes me look as cool as possible
• Speaking of distortion, nothing starts a conversation off right like full-frontal nudity!*
• Have you seen the pictures?

But, knowing this is probably the deathnell of any IMs I'll ever get sent again, let me reassure you of these things:

• I will never give out an AIM screen-name (or Yahoo! or anything else) that isn't used on your own friggin' home page
• If you send me nudie, it won't be used on my site. It'll probably get used, but not on my site. If you know what I'm sayin'.
• Can you tell I've got filth on the mind?

So, this is my iChat/AIM/Instant Messaging policy.**

* This comes from a recent, totally unexplainable rash of, shall we say, friendly fans of the site, thinking that the best way to get my attention is with skin. While it's appreciated, I mean, come on!

**Our crack legal team told me that we have to point out that this is all just a joke, and that all conversations are welcomed with awe and wonder. No statements will be changed without the writer's consent unless it is defaming, illegal, or very poorly worded confidential information. I will ask you if I'm going to post something we talk about. And, to assail any fears, there's no nudity in the future of MacStansbury.com. No matter how many hits I get for porn. And...I get a lot. For porn. I just don't get it.

And yet, even with all this keyword Googlebait, not a hit for porn.

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