Greetings Mark,
This will happen if the local cached store of Messenger data has been
removed. They will once again show properly when they appear online (so it
can retrieve the display name again) and continue to appear when they're
offline.
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Jonathan Kay
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"mark,s" <mark,> wrote in message
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> This happened just a few weeks ago. I signed in my WLM, the latest one,
> with
> MSN PLus and MSN Discovery, and instead of showing my contacts offline
> contacts nicknames, it shows their email. This never happened even after I
> had installed MSN Discovery and MSN Plus, which was in October-November
> 2009.