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RE: Contact List info
There is a chance, but you need some small effort to grab it it all (and some small knowledge of the registry and how to extract things)...

As said before, msgplus does not store your contacts emailaddresses unencrypted, but the .NET Messenger service does... Go to the registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MessengerService\ListCacheU\.NET Messenger Service\

In there, and with some luck, you'll find a cached listing of the Allow list, Block list, Contact list and Reverse list....*

The lists are from the user defined in IdentityName.

So, there you'll find entries like Allow12. This is the 12th item in the allow list. The value is not ASCII but UNICODE. So there, with some luck, you can find all your contacts (provided that the value of IdentityName is your email used for MSN Messenger AND that this cache is up to date)

* Allow list: people who can see your status
Block list: people which you have blocked
Contact list: the contact list
Reverse list: people who have added you to their list


more on this: http://www.msnfanatic.com/index.php?module=announ...1&ANN_user_op=view

This post was edited on 12-11-2004 at 04:38 AM by CookieRevised.
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Contact List info - by grant_w on 12-09-2004 at 11:01 PM
RE: Contact List info - by Xero_Cool on 12-09-2004 at 11:06 PM
RE: Contact List info - by CookieRevised on 12-10-2004 at 12:10 AM
RE: Contact List info - by grant_w on 12-10-2004 at 08:12 AM
RE: Contact List info - by user27089 on 12-10-2004 at 08:13 AM
RE: Contact List info - by grant_w on 12-10-2004 at 11:33 PM
RE: Contact List info - by CookieRevised on 12-11-2004 at 04:32 AM
RE: Contact List info - by grant_w on 12-11-2004 at 09:38 AM


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