[Question #48213]: cannot add buddy at all...

[Evan Platt]

xrysa wrote:
> I go to the buddies list , I choose "add buddy" ,it appears a cerd , i fill in the gap ''buddie's screen name'' by writing the email adress with which the person i wanna add uses msn(when  i had windowsxp i used to chat through windows live messenger and some of my contacts were  transferred automatically in pidgin ,yet some not...)and appears the following message : "Could not add buddy stam_atiz at yahoo.com to group Buddies to the server list on account xrysamara."
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> Why????
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Because <Something>@yahoo.com isn't a MSN name, it's a Yahoo name, so 
you'd add it using Yahoo, and you'd omit the @yahoo.com.