Click to view screen shot. You don't have to find out the remote user's current IP address, and you don't have to know whether the remote user is currently at his or her home or office machine. If the other user has PeerChat running and has set an option that lets PeerChat scan his or her e-mail at regular intervals, your chat request will automatically appear in the other user's PeerChat window. There's no option to delay sending text until you press the Enter key, so all your typing mistakes are visible in real time. Most advanced chat conveniences are provided, including macros for sending boilerplate text, special sounds to alert the remote user, pop-up message boxes, and functions for saving and sending the full text of a chat session.
Encryption is optional.
Unfortunately, you can't block chat requests from specific users. Click to view screen shot. You simply click on a menu item that automatically sends an e-mail to the remote user's account with all the information needed to begin a chat session. The remote user's copy of PeerChat can be set to scan his or her e-mail account at regular intervals or on command, and if a request arrives, PeerChat automatically opens a session. But PeerChat offers more security and more features, and makes it uniquely easy to get in touch.