Buddy list question

[Daniel Atallah]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 09:20, Dun Dug <dundug32 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Just curious as to how this works ....... I had pidgin set up on my laptop
> and have an AIM account.   I set up my account and one buddy in Pidgin.
> All worked fine.   Month or so later, I trashed my computer setup and had to
> reload an image from way before I installed Pidgin.   I then reinstalled
> Pidgin and added my account back in.   When I did, I was surpised to see my
> Buddy automatically show up in the buddy list.   I thought that info was
> only stored on my local drive but clearly it must be stored somewhere else
> online?   I completely formatted my drive so I am pretty sure it wasn't on
> there.
>
> Is the buddy list stored online somewhere for my account?

Yes, most IM protocols store your buddy list on their servers.

-D