Can't add MSN contact

[Daniel Atallah]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 18:31, Jeff Mills <jeff.mills at winsto.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm having trouble adding a contact to MSN buddies in Pidgin 2.7.9.
> When I try to add, I get the error:
>
> Unable to add the buddy xxxx at smartdatainc.com because the username is
> invalid. Usernames must be valid email addresses.

The most likely cause of this problem is that you have a space or
other invalid character before or after the buddy username.

-D