Fix problem connecting Empathy to MSN in Ubuntu 11.10
Empathy stopped connecting to MSN some time ago.
A quick fix is to update a local python file.
Edit the file
sudo gedit /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/papyon/service/description/AB/__init__.py
and make the following change:
url = “http://contacts.msn.com/abservice/abservice.asmx”
to this
url = “http://local-bay.contacts.msn.com/abservice/abservice.asmx”

