Messaging
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Sessions
When connected to the service, your status, as seen by others, is shown in a
status line: My status: Online, My status: Busy or Status: Appear off. — to change
own status, select Change.
Below the status line there are three folders containing your contacts and showing
their status: Conversations (N), Online (N) and Offline (N). To expand the folder,
scroll to it, and select Expand (or press scroll right); to collapse the folder, select
Collapse (or press scroll left).
Conversations — shows the list of new and read instant messages or invitations
to IM during the active IM session
indicates a new group message.
indicates a read group message.
indicates a new instant message.
indicates a read instant message.
indicates an invitation.
The icons and texts on the display depends on the IM service.
Online (N) — shows the number of contacts that are online
Offline (N) — shows the number of contacts that are offline
To start a conversation, expand the Online (N) or the Offline (N) folder, and scroll
to the contact with whom you would like to chat, and select Chat. To answer an
invitation or to reply to a message, expand the Conversations folder, scroll to the
contact to whom you would like to chat, and select Open. To add contacts, see
"Add IM contacts," p. 33.
Groups > Public groups (not visible if groups are not supported by the network) —
The list of bookmarks to public groups provided by the service provider is displayed.
To start a IM session with a group, scroll to a group, and select Join. Enter the
screen name that you want to use as your nickname in the conversation. When you
have successfully joined the group conversation, you can start a group conversation.
You can create a private group. See "Groups," p. 34.
Search > Users or Groups — to search for other IM users or public groups on the
network by phone number, screen name, e-mail address, or name. If you select
Groups, you can search for a group by a member in the group, or by group name,
topic, or ID.
Options > Chat or Join group — to start the conversation when you have found
the user or the group that you want
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