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Hi
I store the emails of my too many friends in a text file and now i wanna add them to my MSN Messenger (which i installed recently after a long period of dislike to this program) to quickly chat with instead of writing emails. How can i do this instead of the boring method of adding one email @a time which is a very boring process 4 me?

you should be able to change the file type of the list into the .ctt contact list and then import it into messenger i'm not sure if there needs formatting inside the file, so test it first

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Originally posted by aNILEator
you should be able to change the file type of the list into the .ctt contact list and then import it into messenger i'm not sure if there needs formatting inside the file, so test it first

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No, it didn't work, it needs a special formatting 1st which i don't know how to do

Contact ahmetgns. He knows a code which you put into the chat window and can add many addresses all in once.

the formatting is as such:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<messenger>
  <service name=".NET Messenger Service">
    <contactlist>
      <contact type="1">contact1@hotmail.co.uk</contact>
      <contact type="1">contact2@hotmail.com</contact>
      <contact type="32">yahoo_contact@yahoo.com</contact>
    </contactlist>
  </service>
</messenger>

use 32 if it's a YIM contact

I don't think MS like people adding contacts from a plain text file due to so many lists of peoples emails being passed to spammers... This makes it harder

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Originally posted by SpunkyLoveMuff
I don't think MS like people adding contacts from a plain text file due to so many lists of peoples emails being passed to spammers... This makes it harder

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not really, it would take like two seconds to write code to read the textfile and turn it into xml...

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Originally posted by aNILEator
the formatting is as such:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<messenger>
  <service name=".NET Messenger Service">
    <contactlist>
      <contact type="1">contact1@hotmail.co.uk</contact>
      <contact type="1">contact2@hotmail.com</contact>
      <contact type="32">yahoo_contact@yahoo.com</contact>
    </contactlist>
  </service>
</messenger>

use 32 if it's a YIM contact

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I can confirm to the op that this works.

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Originally posted by Basilis
Contact ahmetgns. He knows a code which you put into the chat window and can add many addresses all in once.

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REally? I can't remember that I posted anything like this.

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Originally posted by aNILEator
<contact type="1">

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If you don't have a yahoo contact, I think it is fine to write only <contact>address</contact>