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Originally posted by CookieRevised
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Originally posted by stevep1956
Hi all
Can anyone please tell me how to delete names from the allow or block list under the privacy tab in Microsoft Messenger preferences.
I have tried most things but can not delete names.
That list is called the Reverse List, it shows all the contacts who have added you to one of their lists (contact list, allow list or block list).
I think you are mistaken here but I believe you know the meaning of these lists very well, this is only a bad time for you.
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
So, in order to completely remove a contact (thus also from the Reverse List), both of you need to remove eachother first from the Contact List.
I think we cannot do anything to our Reverse lists. We have control on only our contact&allow&block lists.
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
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The bottom line is that if you want to remove a Messenger account (aka Windows Live Id), you should always first remove everybody from your contact list. If you do not do that, all your contacts will remain with your (old) Windows Live Id in their lists and they will not be able to remove it.
However, this is forgotten extremely many times by people (simply because they do not know about this though).
I always recommend people to do so, also sometimes when they want to close their Windows Live accounts, I learn their passwords and I close their accounts for them. However once upon a time, I deleted all the contacts of one friend from the Contacts interface of WL Hotmail (for easeness of selecting all the contacts with one click) and closed his account. Then I noticed that, his email address still appears in my Reverse list. Then I activated his account, added all the contacts back, then deleted them from Messenger one by one (not too much, only 10 contacts
) and that updated my Reverse list too. I want to ask about this. If we delete contacts from WL Hotmail's interface, won't it update those deleted contacts' Reverse lists?
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