Adding Contacts to Your Messenger List
| Overview | A Safe Environment | Importing Contacts | Using the Add to Messenger List Window | Adding From Your Address Book | Adding From an Instant Message |
Adding a Contact From an Instant Message
Anyone using a compatible instant messenger application, such as Windows Live™ Messenger, can send you an instant message without being listed in your Messenger List. When this happens, Messenger lets you know that the person isn’t on your Messenger List, and you can add him or her if you like.
Tip: You can also choose to ignore this user or report this user as a spammer. For more information, see the Learn More.
Here’s How
Depending on your Preference setting for messages that arrive from unknown people, Messenger opens a conversation window or an offline window where all unknown senders are displayed.If you want to add a person listed in an offline window, click the Reply button to open a conversation window with the person.
In the conversation window, click the Add User button in the conversation window.
The Add to Messenger List window opens.
Complete the Add window as described in Using the Add to Messenger List Window.
What’s Next
As you can see, there are many ways to add contacts to your Messenger List. And, don’t forget that you can add contacts your friends send to you from their Messenger Lists. To learn more, take a look at the Sharing Messenger Lists tutorial.
Words to Know
- Contact: a person with whom you interact; someone to whom you might want to send an email, instant message, or text message.
- Messenger List: the main part of the Contact List in Yahoo! Messenger. The Messenger List includes the contacts with whom you communicate most often.
- Spammer: someone who sends spam.