...I have lost my online Hotmail contacts from OE.

That functionality was eliminated in an earlier version of MSN Messenger and
there are no plans to bring it back.
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MSN Messenger-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof....msn.messenger

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org

Brian wrote:
So many of my contacts have adopted MSN Messenger 7.5, which does not
communicate fully with Windows Messenger, that I found myself forced to
also change to MSN Messenger. As a result, I have lost my online Hotmail
contacts from OE.
Is there any way that link can be restored? Is there any prospect that MS
will get their act together and eliminate the ridiculous confusion that
Wndows v. MSN Messenger causes?

Brian