Using Messenger - Manage Buddies

By clicking on the Manage Buddies button in the Messenger Settings dialog, Messenger takes you directly to the View Requests screen of your account at the www.portalsxpress.com website. .

Your Buddies List and No Buddies List reside on this area of your PortalsXpress website and allow you to take advantage of the permissions-based aspect of Messenger. Setting or editing your permissions is conveniently accomplished with just a click or two in the Manage Buddies screen of the PortalsXpress website.

Messenger is described as a permissions-based Internet instant e-mail messaging program. This means that YOU control who can contact you. YOU manage your Buddies and No Buddies lists, and Messenger automatically manages the electronic correspondence. YOU grant or deny requests made to contact you, and Messenger automatically facilitates the correspondence that you approve and filters out the rest. Bottom line: Messenger stops the unwanted messages (spam) before they reach your inbox.

If an individual is included on the Buddies list, you have either granted them permission to contact you or imported them as part of your e-mail address book. Given that an individual is on your approved contacts, Messenger will not filter or restrict instant messages or e-mail from this individual or address.

If an individual is included on the No Buddies list, you have denied them permission to contact you. Messenger will filter and refuse all instant messages or e-mail from this individual or address. This individual or address does not have access to another contact request form for you and will not be able to electronically correspond with you. You are in control of your contacts, the only way you will receive correspondence from someone that is listed on your No Buddies list is if you decide to move them to your approved Buddies list or delete them and have them initiate the permissions request process again.