1.   This way you can drop the URL of your site into conversation whenever people post messages relevant to your site.

2.   Individuals with a common interest, for example, engineers, post open messages to other authorised members.

3.   America Online, CompuServe, Prodigy and the Microsoft Network have features where you can post messages asking others for travel advice.

4.   An Internet America employee took advantage by posting a message to FastLane users mocking the Fort Worth business and urging a switch to the Dallas company.

5.   And earlier this week, another instant messaging company, Tribal Voice, posted a message on its site announcing it was discontinuing its popular PowWow instant messaging service.

6.   And of course it urged Internet users to post the message prominently and to pass it to others.

7.   Another controls who is allowed to post messages to the list.

8.   Another man, Qi Yanchen, of Hebei Province, has been charged with the same crime for posting anti-government messages, according to rights groups.

9.   Anyone can be a pamphleteer and reach immense audiences by e-mail or by posting a message on a Web page.

10.   As many as half of the people who post messages in some investment chat rooms are, in fact, passing along bogus information.