Sharing Messenger Lists

Note: Yahoo! Messenger maintains the privacy and security of all contacts by requiring each contact to approve the addition of his or her name to another person’s Messenger List. This approval takes place when your friends add your shared contacts to their Messenger Lists.

Here’s How

1. In the Messenger window, select Send My Messenger List from the Actions menu.

   The Send My Messenger List window opens.

2. In the Send My Messenger List window, select one or more contacts as the recipients of your list, then click the Next button.

   

   Tips:
   
   To send your Messenger List to an entire group, select the group before selecting Actions > Send My Messenger List. All of the contacts in the group will be selected in the Send My Messenger List window (except non-Yahoo! contacts).
   
   If you are instant messaging a contact, you can select Send My Messenger List from the Actions menu in the conversation window and send your list to just that contact.

3. In the next display of the Send My Messenger List window, do the following:

   • If you have multiple aliases, select the one you would like your recipients to see.

     

   • Select the contacts you would like to send.

     • To send individual contacts, check the box next to each contact.

       

     • To select a group of contacts, check the group box.

       

     • To select all contacts in your Messenger List, check the Select all box.

       

       Tip: Don’t be concerned about whether or not a recipient already has a certain contact on his or her List. Messenger won’t duplicate IDs and will let the recipient know that the contact already exists.

   • To let your recipients see the names you have for the contacts you’re sending, check Let the other person see my names for these contacts.

     

     Tip: Unchecking this option sends only the IDs of the selected contacts.

4. Click the Next button (the Finish button if you’re sending to just one contact).

   If you’re sending your Messenger List to one contact only, a conversation window opens on your screen with a note telling you that you’ve sent the contacts.

   

   If you’re sending to multiple contacts, the last display of the Send My Messenger List window tells you that an instant message has been sent to all of your recipients.

   

5. If you send to multiple contacts, click the Finish button to close the window.

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Learn how to accept contacts when someone shares his or her Messenger List with you.