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YaBB
- Contacting other members
YaBB is about community and communication. And there
are plenty of ways to communicate: Posting
on the boards, Private Messaging, E-mail, ICQ, AIM and YIM.
Of course, all methods of communication are only
available to members.An exception is when the Forum
Staff decides to allow guests to post on the boards:
in this case all unregistered users are NOT allowed
to do is viewing the Member List and sending Personal
Messages to members.
On The Boards
Of course the most obvious way to communicate is
by posting publicly on the Boards. That way your
posts can be read and responded to by many members,
not just one. But, if you need one-on-one communication,
there are several facilities for that as well.
Private Messaging
While e-mail is a good way to correspond privately
with members, it has several drawbacks: You must
open your e-mail application to write and send the
message; the recipient must open his/her e-mail
application; check his/her mailand your message
will mixed in with all the other mailand it
can take sometimes several minutes to an hour for
mail to reach the recipient.
As an alternative to e-mail, YaBB offers a faster,
more private method. Private Messaging on the boards
provides instantaneous delivery to the recipient's
Private Mailbox. The mail is sent and received entirely
through YaBB, so neither you nor the recipient
have to open another program or leave YaBB. Private
Messaging also gives both the sender and recipient
greater privacy: No one's real e-mail address is
revealed. Private Messages show only the handle
and name of both parties.
If a recipient isn't online, Private Messages wait
in the member's PM box until the next time s/he
logs in and manually reads and/or deletes them.
YaBB Private Messages is a self-contained, highly
private e-mail system. Go ahead, give it a try!
E-Mail
Most members provide their e-mail addresses for
private correspondence. On all public posts is a
button to create an e-mail directly to the author.
Member e-mail addresses are also listed in their
profiles, which are also accessible from any public
posts as well as from the member list on YaBB board
list.
ICQ ()
You may notice in some areas a funky little flower
icon near a member's handle. That's an ICQ ("I-seek-you")
icon. If, in the member's profile, s/he has specified
an ICQ ID the flower appears in certain areas of
YaBB. Clicking on the icon will take you to the
member's ICQ profile page on ICQ.com. There you
may sign up for ICQ and communicate with the member
via the free ICQ instant messenger chat client.
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