[Problem] Newly Added Contacts Remain Offline

Dear readers and MS staffs,

Last night, I added a person on my windows messenger 8 and as always the
contact goes into the offline list and than a pop-up saying that the contact
has signed-in, but this time the contact remains in offline even I was
chatting with the person (in a group), but that person added me and can see
my status.
I test with another roomate, by deleting his contact and try to add it, but
it still in the offline list.
The only way to chat with them is if they start the conversation or I have
to use msn web messenger or msn messenger 7.5.

I know there is a big issue laterly with (partialy or totaly) empty contact
list, but i wasn't affected by this problem, so it is a server problem with
contact list laterly?

Is the other user set to appear offline?

In this way they can talk to you but you can't see them as being online.

"" wrote:

> Dear readers and MS staffs,
>
> Last night, I added a person on my windows messenger 8 and as always the
> contact goes into the offline list and than a pop-up saying that the contact
> has signed-in, but this time the contact remains in offline even I was
> chatting with the person (in a group), but that person added me and can see
> my status.
> I test with another roomate, by deleting his contact and try to add it, but
> it still in the offline list.
> The only way to chat with them is if they start the conversation or I have
> to use msn web messenger or msn messenger 7.5.
>
> I know there is a big issue laterly with (partialy or totaly) empty contact
> list, but i wasn't affected by this problem, so it is a server problem with
> contact list laterly?