Add Buddy

[David Woolley]

Oake, David wrote:
> I have used Pidgin for some time but I have not tried adding a buddy 
> yet.  I am trying that today and I seem to be failing.  When I select 
> Add Buddy, I get the screen below:

Are you sure it is not a consequence of the process of shutting down 
MSN, e.g. see 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live_Messenger#Discontinuation


> When I try to add the buddy, I cannot.  I cannot type into the Account 
> the new contact information and I cannot add the new contact information 
> into the Buddy’s username field.

As far as I can see there is only one field (username) into which 
anything has to be typed.

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