Contacts address book

My contacts list became out of control. It seems that every time someone
sends me an email with multiple recipients (or perhaps only if I respond to
the sender, I don't know), ALL of the email addresses get automatically
entered in my contacts list. I just spent a very laborious half day weeding
out the unwanted email addresses and organizing my contacts. What do I reset
so that only I have the power to add email addresses to my contacts?

Deselect that option. Click on Tools > Options > Send [tab]. Uncheck
"Automatically put people I reply to in my contacts list"...that may not be the
exact wording, but you get the idea.

"ALF" <ALF@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:39DB1EF8-6A01-4CC7-B19C-AB3164A7CF53@microsoft.com...
> My contacts list became out of control. It seems that every time someone
> sends me an email with multiple recipients (or perhaps only if I respond to
> the sender, I don't know), ALL of the email addresses get automatically
> entered in my contacts list. I just spent a very laborious half day weeding
> out the unwanted email addresses and organizing my contacts. What do I reset
> so that only I have the power to add email addresses to my contacts?

"ALF" <ALF@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:39DB1EF8-6A01-4CC7-B19C-AB3164A7CF53@microsoft.com...
> My contacts list became out of control. It seems that every time someone
> sends me an email with multiple recipients (or perhaps only if I respond
> to
> the sender, I don't know), ALL of the email addresses get automatically
> entered in my contacts list. I just spent a very laborious half day
> weeding
> out the unwanted email addresses and organizing my contacts. What do I
> reset
> so that only I have the power to add email addresses to my contacts?

Click on Tools, then Options, then Receipts. If there is a blue dot in the
circle before Always send a read receipt, click on one of the other two
circles in this section and then Apply. Click on Send. If there is a check
mark in the box before Automatically put people I reply to in my Contacts
list, click on this box and then Apply. Click on OK.