Buddy list

[Brian Morrison]

On Sat, 3 Sep 2011 12:15:38 -0700 (PDT)
Gruia Mihai <mike.2601 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello! After lots of year of using Yahoo messenger, now i am using Pidgin.
> 1. I am wondering if i can change my budy list like in Yahoo messenger to show me their ID instead of their name. For example: instead of "John Milton", appear his ID "john_milton"

Right click on the contact and select Alias..., you can change the name
shown to anything you want.
 
> 2. Does the arhive is saved anywhere in my computer just like yahoo messenger program?

Conversations can be logged, but you need to enable this in the
Tools->Preferences menu on the Logging tab.

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Brian Morrison

                "I am not young enough to know everything"
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