Repentance
Today, when I woke up, I attained enlightenment. I realized how I may atone for my sinful thoughts. There exists a wonderful function in my IRC client that allows me to put /ignore on private messages only. I put mass /ignore on private messages and mark myself as away, which gives whoever tries to /msg me a courtesy warning that his/her message is on /ignore. The beauty of doing that is that the friends that I care to chat with in private are already on my ICQ and AIM lists. They are not affected by this at all. Ah, I feel so much better now. And, with that sorry excuse of a living creature being banned at least for now, I just may be able to cleanse myself of sinful thoughts.