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Originally posted by whiplash
Edit: After re-reading your post, I see they still need to subscribe. And if they need to do that, if I remember correctly I also need to manually approve it when they subscribe, unless that has changed.
No, you don't get a "approve" popup anymore, but you approve by setting your Permissions here:
http://profile.live.com/Permissions/ > About you, etc...
(where you can also set it in such a way that only certain people can see those updates)
This is because since Windows Live Messenger 8.5 a hell of a lot other (online) content is added and integrated, way to much to list all in an "approve" popup. Hence the system was changed (but certainly not in a way it is still easy to keep track of everything, djeezus).
Note: people will always need to subscribe in one way or the other, that's normal and a very good thing. It would be a big issue if people start getting updates from everybody and everything.
So, they need to select what they want to see. But unfortunatly, there is no option anymore to automatically fill in the 'edit contact' information in WLM 2009. But other stuff (blog updates, photos, etc) work though.
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