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Ouch! That is really poor. I’m sure that was my thought at the time. Sorry for the bum steer on mitesh’s blog. I hadn’t noticed the q.com reference until now. That works for q.com as the former ISP, Qwest, did allow export. Well, I know I did it. I’m wondering now if I copied and pasted the page of contacts and plugged them into a table or Excel or some such thing. You know, my relative had Net Zero dial-up before going with CenturyLink DSL I wonder if I managed to get them from that address book instead. Sorry to be thinking out loud, but surely would like to have solved this. I can’t believe CenturyLink is still prohibiting contacts export. That is incredible!

I don’t have CenturyLink myself; I was doing it for a relative, so I have delayed answering hoping someone would jump in who had done it more recently or has the program on his/her computer. I found this blog, though, and I believe it will be helpful to you:
http://miteshpatel2011.blogspot.com/
I’m sure that is essentially what I did.

Good luck!

I did end up saving the Century Link address book as a .csv file and imported that into Outlook Express. I assume that would work the same with Windows Mail or Windows Live Mail. Sorry I didn’t follow up on this thread at the time. If you have figured out a more direct route, it would be good to post it for anyone who may search to resolve that transfer problem again.

I am trying to assist someone who is using the Century Link email client. Can anyone in this thread tell me if that client facilitates saving the contacts to a .csv file? I can then have her import to Windows Live Mail from the csv file. Century Link has a tutorial on their site that suggests one can import their contacts as a csv file into Windows Mail in Vista, so I think there must be a way. Thanks!

This has been going on for a long time. I remember warning my Messenger friends that they needed to take a look at the setting pages if they didn’t want their information and mine found in strange places. I sent them the following IM in May of 2009:
“ You can change the settings by clicking on the wrench icon to the right of What’s New on your WL Messenger main window. Be sure to look for the link at the end of the first batch of what you want to see from others. It will allow you to select what you want to share. You will be surprised what the defaults have you sharing with others! ”
This was partly in self defense because, at that time, I wasn’t sure that I was going to be able to control what of my information was going to show up on theirs and get broadcast to the world. I do credit MS (and Google) with giving one control over all of this, but I agree that using the information in the first place, especially as the default, is outrageous to me and a lot of other people. It seems to have to do with the do-it-all app problem. I still like my apps to do what I intended when I installed them, not try to dry the dishes, too. As someone pointed out, they (Yahoo, FB, Google, WL) are all doing it and one has to be really vigilant about finding and unchecking boxes everywhere one goes these days. Kinda sad.