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I have a list of hotmail addresses in a txt file. Is there a way to add all of them to MSN at once? Or do I have to add them one by one? Thanks

I don't know of any program that can do it, but there might be one out there...

One thing you can do is open notepad, type this in:

code:

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<messenger>
  <service name=".NET Messenger Service">
    <contactlist>
      <contact type="1">1st contact email address</contact>
      <contact type="1">2nd contact email address</contact>
      <contact type="1">etc....</contact>
    </contactlist>
  </service>
</messenger>

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But insert your contacts names in. You'd have to do it for all your contacts aswell

Then go to Save As... (and make sure it saves it as 'All File Types') then save it as contacts.ctt

Then go to your contact list select Contacts - Import Instant Messaging Contacts... and open contacts.ctt.

It should work, but theres probably a much simpler and quicker way out there, so you might wanna wait a little while incase someone posts and easier way

thanks Joey, I thought about that...same format that MSN uses to backup the contact list

Yeh, exactly

i knocked up a quick little jscript to do it. i couldn't figure out how to read the number of lines in a file, so you'll have to input that too.

code:

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var fso, f1, ts, final;
fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
var ForReading = 1;

function MakeCList(theFile,theNewFile,numContacts)
{
var final = '<?xml version="1.0"?>';
final += '<messenger>';
final += '<service name=".NET Messenger Service">';
final += '<contactlist>';
ts = fso.OpenTextFile(theFile, ForReading);
for (i=0; i<numContacts; i++)
{
final+='<contact type="1">' + ts.ReadLine() + '</contact>';
}
ts.Close();
final += '</contactlist>';
final += '</service>';
final += '</messenger>';
f1 = fso.CreateTextFile(theNewFile, true);
f1.Write (final);
f1.Close();
}

MakeCList("C:\\contacts.txt","C:\\contacts.ctt",10);

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the syntax is MakeCList("[path to file with email addresses]","[path to new contacts.ctt]", [number of email addresses]);

obviously this assumes one email address per line. if they were comma seperated it would be really easy.

edit:

code:

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var fso, f1, ts, final, a;
fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
var ForReading = 1;

function MakeCList(theFile,theNewFile)
{
var final = '<?xml version="1.0"?>';
final += '<messenger>';
final += '<service name=".NET Messenger Service">';
final += '<contactlist>';
ts = fso.OpenTextFile(theFile, ForReading);
a=ts.ReadAll().split(",");
for (i=0; i<a.length; i++)
{
a[i]=a[i].replace(" ","");
final+='<contact type="1">' + a[i] + '</contact>';
}
ts.Close();
final += '</contactlist>';
final += '</service>';
final += '</messenger>';
f1 = fso.CreateTextFile(theNewFile, true);
f1.Write (final);
f1.Close();
}

MakeCList("C:\\contacts.txt","C:\\contacts.ctt");

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that's for comma separated or comma space separated. doesn't need to know the number of addresses.

Aber, can you tell me how to execute the jscript? Thanks

copy it into notepad and save as blah.js
then run it.
change the last line to have the right files.

thanks Aber

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Originally posted by alegator
thanks Aber

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no problem.
i'm getting back into programming, and i need the practise.