Importing user/buddy lists from instant messangers

I'm working on an instant messanger, and wanted to allow users to import their user/buddy lists from AIM/ICQ/MSNMessanger?

Thanks in advance!

anyone?

You didn't post any problems...Did you start writing the code? What are you having trouble with?

How can import user/buddy lists from instant messangers?

Ok, well, in the AIM buddy lists, if you open it in notepad, you can see all of the screen names in the list. Maybe you could parse down and get all the names you want.

Can you give me an example of it, I don't use aim.

There's no sense of doing that. Let's say you get the users list of icq. And then? You will have their names but they won't have your program and just having names and icq numbers won't give you the possibility fo find them.

Yeah, unless you can somehow integreate all the client together, like ICQ, MSN, AIM, etc. it is pointless. They are just random names then.

Well, if you click it mebbe you could go to their profile on the MSN/ICQ/AIM page, or whatever.

Ok...but still, who wants to look at someones profile if they can't talk to them?