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mishkakimba
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O.P. Email address only in contact list
What does it mean when a contact only appears as an email address in your contact list, and not a name.

For example instead of reading "John" it says johnbrown@hotmail.com

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04-08-2009 08:10 AM
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RE: Email address only in contact list
It means that the contact doesnt have a nickname set.
04-08-2009 02:20 PM
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O.P. RE: Email address only in contact list
no but they do have one
04-09-2009 02:11 AM
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RE: Email address only in contact list
Have you tried:
Right-clicking the contact, selecting Edit / Add a Nickname, putting in the Nickname of your choice?
04-09-2009 10:39 AM
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RE: Email address only in contact list
When your contacts show up as emails this means that they have no name set (so a person with an email of jsmith@example.com would be called John Smith) as your Messenger client has not had them sign in before and thus no information has been sent yet. Messenger then defaults to the person's email address:

If no Messenger nickname > use first and last names; if none > use email.

I hope I explained it alright :P I'm not 100% sure if that's how it works, but it seems to be so.

EDIT: @Joshua: That is a plausible workaround, yes, but highly impractical if you have a large amount of contacts.

This post was edited on 04-09-2009 at 10:51 AM by ryxdp.
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