Dummy protocol?

[Eugene Grosbein]

14.06.2020 11:43, Alex Oren wrote:

> I have old conversation logs from people I used to chat with on currently defunct protocols (Yahoo, etc.)
> Some of those people are no longer my contacts, but I still want to have those chat logs visible in Pidgin.
> 
> Is there away to add them as "dummy" contacts so I can still view the logs but nothing more?

You can find your old logs as readable html or text files (depending on your settings) at your system.
No need to add "dummy contacts".

Location of files depends of your OS and/or user profile.