Dummy protocol?

[alex at alexoren.com]

On 2020-06-14 2:20 AM, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> 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".

Of course I can, but that is not the point.
I want to access them from within Pidgin, just like I view the history of my active contacts.