How can I IM a group at one time...

[Guest]

Ok, so we have several groups set up.
I want to be able to send a message to the entire group at once, how the
heck do you do that...you cant so I am told, but with all the gurus here I am
sure someone knows how to do this somehow.
Only way I know of, which wont work for our needs, is to start a convo and
then invite everyone, one at a time.

 

[Galen]

In DKNYC had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

Ok, so we have several groups set up.
I want to be able to send a message to the entire group at once, how
the heck do you do that...you cant so I am told, but with all the
gurus here I am sure someone knows how to do this somehow.
Only way I know of, which wont work for our needs, is to start a
convo and then invite everyone, one at a time.

Hmm... I don't think you can. <g> But, what type of environment (network)
are we looking at? Is this a LAN? If so then... Well... Maybe... If it's an
Internet then I'm pretty sure you'll need someone else to help you with that
as I'm not into chat that much and generally only use Windows Live Messenger
(no, I don't think the feature's in there but I could be missing something)
or Yahoo! and both I use so simplistically that I might be over-looking a
feature in one of them.

Hmm... No, not in WLM that I see anywhere. Not in Yahoo! either. If it's a
LAN then maybe - there's software that will do that for free.

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[Guest]

We are on a LAN, running client version 5.1.0639, utilizing a SIP
communications
service/server

 

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings,

This functionality is not in Windows Messenger 5.1, so unfortunately you can't do this.

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[Galen]

In DKNYC had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

We are on a LAN, running client version 5.1.0639, utilizing a SIP
communications
service/server

Take a gander here:

InterChat:
http://www.conware.org/products/ic3/about.php

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/
http://kgiii.info/

"We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind,
which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply
there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations." -
Sherlock Holmes

 

[Guest]

Thanks Galen...useful link but unfortunately not feasible for our
environment...have about 150 users. Would have been a possibility if it
utilized ADI

 

[Guest]

One more issue...as posted on their site.
"XP USERS: Please Note:
We are currently having some problems with IC3 running on XP. In some cases
it works fine and in others it causes system errors. We are working on a
solution. "
But once again...thanks for your effort

 

[Galen]

In DKNYC had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

One more issue...as posted on their site.
"XP USERS: Please Note:
We are currently having some problems with IC3 running on XP. In some
cases it works fine and in others it causes system errors. We are
working on a solution. "
But once again...thanks for your effort

A few of us have gone over it with a fine tooth comb and it seems that it's
just fine under XP for the most part. In fact it's never had any issues with
XP on a number of virtual machines. We did manage to make it do some funny
stuff to other software though but that was while using Server 2k3 and the
problem wasn't really with the IC3 but rather with third party applications
and it sometimes making the screen's slide outs go funny and what not. It
seems that the people who have had problems with it also have third party
themes or themes managers installed.

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/
http://kgiii.info/

"We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind,
which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply
there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations." -
Sherlock Holmes