AOL System Msg Avoidance

Ok. This has been bothering me for a long time. The AOLSystemMsg that IMs you every time you log on to multiple accounts drives me crazy. I have three different computers I frequently use (1 Mac, 1 Linux, 1 Windows) with either Adium or Pidgin running. Every time I google for a solution I find tons of people complaining and various proposed solutions. All I care about is that it doesn't cause a window or dock icon to flash. Here are my current solutions:

Pidgin

Install the Pidgin Plugin Pack or just the Ignore plugin.
Enable the plugin in Tools->Plugins
Open any chat window and type "/ignore +aolsystemmsg"

Adium

I used to use an Applescript I hacked up for Adium to ignore AOLSystemMsg (see below) but the internet has provided a better solution! Steve Checkoway came across this page and was inspired to make an Adium plugin to do the ignoring for you. You can get the plugin here. Thanks Steve.

My Old Applescript Hack
This was my old solution... I suggest you use the plugin. see above
I hacked up a simple Applescript to close chat windows by looking at other random Adium Applescripts. I'm sure this can be made to have nicer features but for now I just wanted to close the stupid chat window so i'm not compelled to click on my dock icon to get rid of the red badge telling me AOLSystemMsg IM'd me.

Download the simple script here: closeChats.scpt.
The script is shown below. It gets all the open chats from Adium and closes any that match the names in "chatNamesToClose".

-- Change this to the list of chat names you want to close
set chatNamesToClose to {"aolsystemmsg"}

tell application "Adium"
	
	repeat with aChat in every chat
		set chatName to the name of aChat as text
		
		repeat with name in chatNamesToClose
			if name is in chatName then
				close aChat
			end if
			
		end repeat
	end repeat
end tell

Go to Adium->Preferences. Then click on Events.
Go to "Message recieved" and click on the + button. Set the Action to "Run an AppleScript" and browse to the location of your saved closeChats.scpt.