How do I clear my entire Messenger list if it contains over 400 contacts over the years?

I have so many I cannot clear them all in one setting. Any thoughts? also, how would I send a message to everyone on the entire list?





Thanks!How do I clear my entire Messenger list if it contains over 400 contacts over the years?
If you are talking about Yahoo Messenger, then please continue reading.





OK about sending a group message to everybody. DO THIS BEFORE YOU DELETE THEM. OK open Yahoo Messenger. If you have the contacts organized into groups then just right click each group name and choose Broadcast and IM to this group. Then a new window will open for you to type your message. If you do not have groups click Actions at the top and then choose Send an Instant Message. Left click the first name and then hold down the Shift key and click the last name in the group. They will now be all selected. Click OK. And a window Send Message to group window will open.





I would not delete them from Yahoo Messenger itself but thorugh Contacts in Yahoo! Mail. Ther reason for this is that many people find when they delete a lot of contacts from Yahoo Messenger, they are not really deleted and show up again the next time Y!M is used.





Note the method described below will delete all your contacts including ones you might have as email contacts but not on Yahoo Messenger itself so be sure to remove the checks by the names you do not want to delete.





In Yahoo! Classic Mail click the Contacts tab near the top. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click Check All. Please note that you might have to do this on a few pages if you have so many contacts. Remove the checks from the ones you do not want to delete. OK now click the Delete button near the top. This will also remove them from Yahoo Messenger.





In the All-New Yahoo! Messenger click the Contacts category on the left. This will open the Contacts Tab. Or just click the


Contacts Tab at the top. At the top to the left of where it says All Contacts check the blank box. This will select all the contacts. Then click Delete on the right. Again not sure if there will be multiple pages with so many contacts.





A warning these are all your contacts including your email contacts so be sure to remove the checks from any of the boxes that you do not want to delete, that maybe you just use for email and not on your messenger list.





Another options would just be to open a whole new Yahoo Account which would give you a new Yahoo ID and new Yahoo! Mail. Do that here if you want: https://edit.yahoo.com/registration?





You can delete the other Yahoo! Account: read here:


But if you still want to close your account then please read this yahoo help page, including the warnings about what you will lose and what to do if you subscribe to premium services.


http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/edit/ch鈥?/a>





Whatever you decide is totally up to you and what meets your needs.How do I clear my entire Messenger list if it contains over 400 contacts over the years?
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are you using yahoo mes or msn?