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    <link type="guide" xref="irc-manage#manage" group="two"/>
    <desc>Start a conversation with an IRC contact.</desc>
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    <credit type="author">
      <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
      <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
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  <title>Chat with somebody on IRC</title>

  <p>You can hold private conversations with other IRC users, outside of the
  public IRC chat rooms.  To start a conversation with another IRC user:</p>

  <steps>
    <item>
      <p>In the contact list for an IRC chat room, double click the name of
      the user you want to chat with.  Alternatively, right click the name
      of the user and choose <gui>Chat</gui>.</p>
    </item>
  </steps>

  <list>
    <item>
      <p>
        The IRC room contact list is not the same as <app>Empathy</app> contact list.  It contains
        a list of users in the IRC chat room you joined.  Different rooms can have different
         contacts listed.
      </p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>
        The IRC room contact list is usually on the right side of the IRC room window. If you
         do not see it, choose
         <guiseq><gui>Conversation</gui><gui>Show Contact List</gui></guiseq>.
      </p>
    </item>
  </list>

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