Dummy protocol?

[Eugene Grosbein]

14.06.2020 13:22, alex at alexoren.com wrote
:
> 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.

Pidgin keeps your contacts (no matter active or not) in the blist.xml
that is readable and editable with any text editor of your choice.
Just make sure you create backup copy of the file before editing
and don't edit it while Pidgin is running.