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"Your contact list is currently at or over 150 contacts, the server-imposedlimit"
Hi MSN gurus... and Happy New Year
I've written to Microsoft support 5-6 times last year and no help so far. The problem is that I suddenly lost the ability to block users who added me (and 5 to 10 would attempt to add me daily), or add those who I wanted to add. I gave up on MSN because upon signing up the list of pop-up was growing and closing 50+ of them was not really possibly/feasible anymore. I've just installed Trillian v3 and connected to MSN. The pop-ups I see in MSN are also present in Trillian. The only difference is that Trillian gave me the following error message when I tried to block a user (I get that message for all users I block) "Your contact list is currently at or over 150 contacts, the server-imposed limit. You may not receive status notifications for your contacts if you exceed the limit, and might want to clean up your list to ensure proper functionality" I few questions that come to my mind: 1) Is MSN really limited on the server side to just 150 users??? 2) Do blocked users get recorded in my list???? (I've got 100 or so users that I added, definitely not 150+ but I know some 5-10 users per day try to block me and I reject them) 3) Is there a fix for this? Either by requesting bigger list from MSN (how do I do that?) or by removing some of those users I never wanted in my list (I see tons of those in my list but I cannot delete them. I installed the latest MSN7-beta and the "Delete" option when I right-click on a users is grayed out) Thanks to all in advance! Marv PS. Jonathan, you've helped me in the past. I'd be very grateful if you can look into my problem. |
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"Your contact list is currently at or over 150 contacts, the server-imposed limit"
Greetings Marvin,
1 -- Yes, it is. 2 -- No, the blocked list is a separate list from the main ("forward") list. You can have up to 600-1000 contacts on that list (it's been adjusted a few times and I'm not sure what they settled on). 3 -- The Delete option will only appear if the user has removed you from their main contact list. As such, I'm sure at least a few of them should be available. Try removing several. ____________________________________________ Jonathan Kay Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger Associate Expert http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/ Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2004 Jonathan Kay. You *must* contact me for redistribution rights. "Marvin" wrote in message ... Hi MSN gurus... and Happy New Year I've written to Microsoft support 5-6 times last year and no help so far. The problem is that I suddenly lost the ability to block users who added me (and 5 to 10 would attempt to add me daily), or add those who I wanted to add. I gave up on MSN because upon signing up the list of pop-up was growing and closing 50+ of them was not really possibly/feasible anymore. I've just installed Trillian v3 and connected to MSN. The pop-ups I see in MSN are also present in Trillian. The only difference is that Trillian gave me the following error message when I tried to block a user (I get that message for all users I block) "Your contact list is currently at or over 150 contacts, the server-imposed limit. You may not receive status notifications for your contacts if you exceed the limit, and might want to clean up your list to ensure proper functionality" I few questions that come to my mind: 1) Is MSN really limited on the server side to just 150 users??? 2) Do blocked users get recorded in my list???? (I've got 100 or so users that I added, definitely not 150+ but I know some 5-10 users per day try to block me and I reject them) 3) Is there a fix for this? Either by requesting bigger list from MSN (how do I do that?) or by removing some of those users I never wanted in my list (I see tons of those in my list but I cannot delete them. I installed the latest MSN7-beta and the "Delete" option when I right-click on a users is grayed out) Thanks to all in advance! Marv PS. Jonathan, you've helped me in the past. I'd be very grateful if you can look into my problem. |
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"Your contact list is currently at or over 150 contacts, theserver-imposed limit"
Hi Jonathan,
Thanks for answering. 2 -- No, the blocked list is a separate list from the main ("forward") list. You can have up to 600-1000 contacts on that list (it's been adjusted a few times and I'm not sure what they settled on). Can that be full, too? It takes 5-6 mins on a P4-2.4GHz to open the list and I see tons of entries. 3 -- The Delete option will only appear if the user has removed you from their main contact list. As such, I'm sure at least a few of them should be available. Try removing several. I did manage to delete a few, not majority of them - I cannot. I can't believe that the MSN Messenger architecture is so dump to fill up my list with users who I don't even care about! Is there anything I can do on my side to stop all of those pop-ups and be able to add new users? Thanks again, Marv |
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"Your contact list is currently at or over 150 contacts, the server-imposed limit"
Hi,
2 -- No, the blocked list is a separate list from the main ("forward") list. You can have up to 600-1000 contacts on that list (it's been adjusted a few times and I'm not sure what they settled on). Can that be full, too? It takes 5-6 mins on a P4-2.4GHz to open the list and I see tons of entries. Yes it can, although I've never seen such lag for opening the Privacy tab in Messenger. 3 -- The Delete option will only appear if the user has removed you from their main contact list. As such, I'm sure at least a few of them should be available. Try removing several. I did manage to delete a few, not majority of them - I cannot. I can't believe that the MSN Messenger architecture is so dump to fill up my list with users who I don't even care about! Well, thankfully there's actually a cleanup procedure in place (there wasn't for many years), so "unused" accounts will be disappearing if they're not being used (and on your account). Is there anything I can do on my side to stop all of those pop-ups and be able to add new users? There have been some "utilities" in the past that people have used in an attempt to fix them (I don't suggest using them nor do I even remember their names off hand). You may just have to wait for the cleanup procedure to do its thing. Since they just started running it again last month, it will be awhile before it gets to everyone and unused accounts are properly flagged for deletion (sorry I have no ETA). ____________________________________________ Jonathan Kay Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger Associate Expert http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/ Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2004 Jonathan Kay. You *must* contact me for redistribution rights. |
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