There is at least a couple of different ways that I know of to get a message to a member who is not currently on-line.
1) In any thread where a member has made a post look under their member name for a link labled
Send Private Message. Click on that and the IM window will pop up.
2) On the
'Community' tab click on the link labeled
Member Search, enter the member's name you wish to contact, press the 'Enter' key on your keyboard or click on the 'Submit' button, and their member profile display page will come up. Just to the right of their member name will be a link labeled
Send Instant Message. Click on that and the IM window will pop up.
I'm sure there are some other ways of getting into the 'IM world', but those work for me. Hope this helps!
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Jim Olson
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