I'm trying to get one of my friends up and running using MSN. He has made himself a @live.co.uk account and has apparently added me as a contact. I can get emails using the MSN accounts from him, but he is showing up as offline when he is signed in. Could we not be compatible because I have a @hotmail.co.uk account?

I'm convinced he's doing something wrong

Is he signed in as off line.

We have a tech shed for stuff like this lol

I'll move it there for you:D:D

Hello.

I use MSN with an @orange.net email address fine. Have they accidentally set their status to 'appear offline' even though he's actually signed in? Only thing I can think of... but then I'm tired!

Or they've blocked you.

I don't think he has set it to offline. I sent him an I.M. just incase but nothing. He hasn't got any contacts in his list either, when I should be in there!

Bless him

I just tried blocking a friend during a conversation. He said I appeared offline to him... but then he was in my contact list to start with and there's an obvious red circle with a line through his name at my end.

I talked him through the process of getting the live account and downloading MSN, maybe it's me that did something wrong.

He hasn't got any contacts in his list either, when I should be in there!

Bless him

I think thats your problem

He hasn't accepted you by the look of it.

HTH

Give him your MSN address and get him to add you at his end. Best of all, go round and do it yourself. If you want a job doing properly.....

Steve

Thinking about it, he did it all rather quickly. I don't think he actually downloaded Messenger Go round his house and sort it myself? There is no way on this earth I will set foot in his haunted house again. :eek: