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    <link type="guide" xref="index#text-conv"/>
    <desc>Send a message to one of your contacts.</desc>
    <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-06-14" status="draft"/>
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    <revision pkgversion="2.32" version="0.3" date="2010-09-09" status="review"/>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Phil Bull</name>
      <email>philbull@gmail.com</email>
    </credit>
    <license>
      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
    </license>    
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  </info>

  <title>Send a message to someone</title>

  <steps>
    <item>
      <p>
        From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, double-click the name of the
        contact that you want to have a conversation with.
      </p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>
        A new window will open. Type a message into the box at the
        bottom of the window and press <key>Enter</key> to send it.
      </p>
    </item>
  </steps>
  
  <section id="send-meta-contact" style="2column">
    <title>Send a message to a meta-contact</title>
    <steps>
      <item>
        <p>
          From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, right-click on the meta-contact.   
        </p>
      </item>
      <item>
        <p>
          Select the contact you want to have the conversation, and from the menu
          select <gui style="menuitem">Chat</gui>.
        </p>
      </item>
    </steps>
    <note style="tip">
      <p>
        To recognize if a contact is a <em>meta-contact</em>, move your mouse on
        a contact in the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, and stop over it for a
        second: a small pop-up message will appear showing the number of the
        contacts that form the meta-contact.
      </p>
    </note>
  </section>

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