OurGayborhood Instant Messenger (OGIM) allows you to maintain contact and ignore lists,
to check online status of the users in your contact list and
to communicate with other users of OurGayborhood.com in a private or public chat.
All users of OGIM are subject to OurGayborhood.com Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
Contact list is organized into groups.
To edit contact list, use main menu, toolbar buttons and popup menu
of the main window.
When you add user to contact list
this user is automatically removed from your ignore list and vice versa
when you add user to ignore list
this user is automatically removed from all groups in your contact list.
To ignore user, use popup menu of the main window or public chat window.
To unignore user, doubleclick his username in your ignore list
(to open ignore list, use main menu or toolbar button of the main window
or public chat window).
To ignore/unignore user in the private chat,
use main menu or toolbar button of the private chat window.
The users in your ignore list can't send private messages to you.
To enter public chat, use main menu or toolbar button of the main window.
To start private chat with another user, click his username
in your contact list or in the public chat window.
Use Enter key or Send button to send messages.
To insert a smiley, click the right button of the mouse
over the message edit field.
To change room in the public chat,
doubleclick the room title in the room list.
Audio and video chat features are only available on our web-based chat software. The desktop chat software, OurGayborhood Instant Messenger, does not currently support these features. To access Audio/Video Chat, logon to your OurGayborhood.com account, choose Connect from the main menu, and then A/V Chat from the Connect sub-menu.
You may distribute the OurGayborhood Instant Messenger Installation Package in any way you choose (besides spam). Email it, link to it, put it on a disk and pass it out to your friends and family. We don't care. You may NOT, however, sell this software or exchange it for any goods or services. In order to use this software, a free OurGayborhood.com account must be created. The OurGayborhood.com registration page may be accessed using the following url: http://www.ourgayborhood.com/?page=join
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