Two profiles registered under the same email address

A contact of mine says that when he added me to his contact list in
Live Messenger, he got a warning saying that there was two profiles
registered with my email address. He didn't remember the exact words.
Also though he added me only once I was put on his list twice.

What's that about?

Greetings Lars,

Is it a Yahoo address out of any chance? If so, if you have both a Windows Live ID and Yahoo
account, it'll add both.

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"Lars Stokholm" <> wrote in message
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>A contact of mine says that when he added me to his contact list in
> Live Messenger, he got a warning saying that there was two profiles
> registered with my email address. He didn't remember the exact words.
> Also though he added me only once I was put on his list twice.
>
> What's that about?

On 2007-08-23, Jonathan Kay [MVP] <> wrote:
> Is it a Yahoo address out of any chance? If so, if you have both a Windows Live ID and Yahoo
> account, it'll add both.

1) It is Yahoo.
2) Does it make sense to add a Yahoo account to Live Messenger? Will it talk
on that protocol?
3) Can I avoid the behavior and have it only see my WLID account. I'm not
using my Yahoo account.

Also, thanks.

Hi,

2) Yep. Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger interoperate. You can talk to anyone on
either network. On Messenger, it's done by , hence why you get both.

3) I don't believe you can stop this besides changing your @yahoo address to something else
which is a process which has its own issues...

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Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2007 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
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"Lars Stokholm" <> wrote in message
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> On 2007-08-23, Jonathan Kay [MVP] <> wrote:
>> Is it a Yahoo address out of any chance? If so, if you have both a Windows Live ID and
>> Yahoo
>> account, it'll add both.
>
> 1) It is Yahoo.
> 2) Does it make sense to add a Yahoo account to Live Messenger? Will it talk
> on that protocol?
> 3) Can I avoid the behavior and have it only see my WLID account. I'm not
> using my Yahoo account.
>
> Also, thanks.

On 2007-08-23, Jonathan Kay [MVP] <> wrote:
> 2) Yep. Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger interoperate. You can talk to anyone on
> either network. On Messenger, it's done by , hence why you get both.
>
> 3) I don't believe you can stop this besides changing your @yahoo address to something else
> which is a process which has its own issues...

Okay. Well that's not very well thought-through. But thanks for clearing things up.