One thought that occurs to me: They might send a "last gasp" message from
AOL to everyone in their address book, asking them to send them a message at
their new address on the ISP.

Then, using Entourage (or even Outlook Express, which is still free and
still works on Classic), they could add the new users to their address book
as the messages come in. In Entourage, just typing Cmd-= when an incoming
message is selected will add the sender to the address book. Of course, it
won't copy all the postal address or other info, just the name and e-mail
address.

If correspondents know how to send a vcard, have them do that. Double-click
a VCF file and it automatically creates a new contact in Entourage, with all
the information intact.

Just the other day on this list, I sent out a script that will create a
contact based on name, address and e-mail info typed into a message, e.g.

Allen Watson
123 Main Street
Anywhere, OH 12345
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

So if you get people to send you their info in that format, you'd at least
have the basic info you could capture, using my script.


On or near 2/24/2003 9:39 PM, Jim Robertson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:

> I have two close friends (husband and wife) who are migrating from AOL to a
> real ISP. They're bummed out about not being able to export their email
> address book from their AOL client software to be imported into a mail
> client that follows most internet standards.

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<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
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 <http://members.thinkaccess.net/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Scripts/>
Entourage Help Pages: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>



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