Why am I having trouble receiving text messages from only some people

I have turned off my imessaging and only some of my contacts are having trouble sending messages to me when they have imessage turned on.  They receive a message that says Not Delivered.  Why am I having this issue with only some of my contacts? How can I fix this?

Hi,
I was quite specific about which .plist to delete as if you have no other issues it is pointless deleting the AIM or Subnet (Bonjour) or Yahoo ones as they will not effect the Jabber logins.
Deleting the LLSharing list one only removes items from the Recent Lists in the File menu > Recent Items.
The Status Messages one only deletes the Saved Status Messages you may have made for Buddy lists.
Deleting com.apple.ichat.plist itself mostly messes up your Preferences and some menu choices.
Try deleting com.apple.imagent.plist as this is involved with logging in the Accounts to the various servers.
9:35 pm      Wednesday; January 8, 2014
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