Greetings.

I'm having a huge headache with a problem that is, in part, my own fault. This 
will be a somewhat long post, but I really wanna explain this well:

I was working at a company that uses Psi as their IM client. I was using it 
there with no problem at all (although this is hardly relevant to the subject) 
and then I've made the (sad) decision to import my MSN contacts into this Psi 
client.

Problem is I have something around 230+ contacts on my MSN contact list and due 
to particularities of the network of this company every and each one of them 
got a '@name-of-the-company-I-was.com' appended to it, generating 230+ new 
authorization requests that I had to send and approve (same as when you add a 
contact to the list).

After doing all this I've got home and when I started Pidgin the real problem 
began: Pidgin now opens one authorization request for each of this 230+ 
contacts, but unlike Psi it tries to open the 230+ authorization windows at 
once, causing a huge resource comsumption.

My problem is not even that (I'm somewhat patient with these things), but the 
problem is Pidgin then crashes before I can authorize even one contact.

I then thought "Well, the solution is to install Psi here. It will open one 
window at a time and I'll be able to fix this!". Although it was a somewhat 
smart solution, it all failed because I just can't find any plugins or 
something like that to allow the Psi I've installed to connect to the MSN 
network.

So, basically my situation is this: I can't use my MSN account anymore because 
I can't find a program that connects to it and stays stable so I can fix the 
problem. I even thought about creating a new MSN account, but c'mon it's hard 
to believe there's no solution to this...

BTW, not sure if it's relevant, but anyway: at home (where the problem is) I 
use Ubuntu 8.10. At the company I was using Windows XP.

Can anyone please advise? I hope I was clear enough about the whole thing.

TIA,

Er Galvao Abbott

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