Re: Cannot block users in Windows Messenger 4.7 any longer

From: PA Bear (PABear_at_mvps.org)
Date: 07/02/04 

Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 17:34:56 -0400

Try posting to
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.messenger 

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John wrote:
> This problem started approx. two weeks ago. I was
> disconnected from messenger (4.7.2009) and obviously tried
> to login. It logged in fine, and as usual, I saw a whole
> lot of people sending me requests to add them to the list.
> Now, usually, I go ahead and block them. This is where the
> problem begins. After verifying that I didn't know any of
> these users, I attempted to block them. The message
> spitted out by messenger was "The user <username> could
> not be blocked". I tried logging off and logging back on,
> and again got the request and attempted to block. I got
> the same message. Initially, I thought it might be a
> corruption in the application itself. So, I logged on to
> another machine of mine and attempted to block the user.
> No success. I then logged in as another user account and
> attempted to add and block using a friendly contact and
> that worked. So that took out the "error in the
> appliction" out of the picture. I, then, attempted to
> block some of the users from my contact list, and not just
> the ones that were new users sending requests and I
> couldn't block them either. I also attempted to use the
> latest MSN 6.2 client but that didn't help matters either.
> I then though that it might be my block list that had a
> whole lot of people in there, mostly random users
> attempting to add me to my list that I'd compiled over the
> years. Thinking so, I went ahead and tried removing
> everybody from that list. What I found is that, I couldn't
> remove every single blocked contact from the list. I could
> only remove a few and the others I couldn't delete.
> Nevertheless, I removed a good portion of users from the
> list. Tried blocking users again, but still nothing. Now,
> I'm at a point where this problem is becoming a nuisance
> as I've got to hit cancel for 18 user requests every
> single time I log onto the service. And this list only
> keeps on increasing. I'd really appreciate it if you could
> please look into this matter and rectify this situation.
> The userid I'm using that is experiencing this problem is
> falak@hotmail.com. You can also contact me on the same
> email address.
>
> Thanks and I'm hopeful you guys are going to get back to
> me soon.
>
> Regards,
>
> John

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