IM : Instant Messaging
The Kansai Scene forum is about community and communication. And there are plenty of ways to communicate: Posting on the boards, Instant Messaging, E-mail, ICQ, AIM and YIM. Of course, all methods of communication are only available to members. An exception is when the Forum Admin 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.
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 mail and your message will mixed in with all the other
mail and it can take sometimes several minutes to an hour for mail to
reach the recipient.
As an alternative to e-mail, the Kansai Scene forum offers a faster, more private method.
Instant Messaging on the boards provides instantaneous delivery to the
recipient's Private Mailbox. The mail is sent and received entirely
through the forum, so neither you nor the recipient have to open another
program or leave the forum. Instant Messaging also gives both the sender
and recipient greater privacy: No one's real e-mail address is revealed.
Instant Messages show only the handle and name of both parties.
If a recipient isn't online, Instant Messages wait in the member's IM
box until the next time s/he logs in and manually reads and/or deletes
them. Kansai Scene forum Instant Messages is a self-contained, highly private e-mail
system.
