I n s t a n t m e s s a g e s ( C h a t )48■ Editing your ownsettingsEnter the Instant messages menuand connect to the service. SelectMy settings to view and edit yourown availability information orscreen name. Select Availabilityand Available for all or Avail. forcontacts (or Appear offline) toallow all the other users or onlythe contacts on your contact listto see that you are online whenyou have connected to the service.When you are connected to theservice, indicates that you areonline and that you are notvisible to others.■ Contacts for instantmessagingTo add contacts to the instantmessaging contacts list, connectto the service and select IMcontacts. If the contacts list isempty the phone displays Contactlist empty. Copy contacts fromserver? to retrieve availablecontacts from the server.Otherwise select Options andselect Add contact, or if you haveno contacts added, select Add.Select Enter ID manually, Searchfrom serv., From contacts, or Copyfrom server to add a new contact.When the contact is added, thephone displays Added to IMcontacts: and the contact name.Scroll to a contact, and selectChat to start a session or selectOptions and select Contact info,Edit name, Block contact (orUnblock contact), Add contact,Remove contact, Copy to server,or Availability alerts.■ Blocking andunblocking messagesConnect to the service and selectConversations or IM contacts.Highlight the contact in thecontacts list from whom you wantto block incoming messages.Select Options, select Blockcontact and select OK.To unblock the messages, connectto the service and select Blockedlist. Scroll to the contact fromwhom you want to unblock themessages and select Unblock.■ GroupsYou can create your own privategroups for a session, or use thepublic groups provided by theservice provider. The privategroups exist only during an activesession. You can add to a privategroup only the contacts that are inyour contact list and thus in thephone’s contacts memory. If the