Abstract: A method provides users of a system facilitating the exchange of messages in near-real time, the option of hearing greetings of other users currently in communication with the system and sending messages to them, and of hearing greetings of users who were previously in communication with the system to exchange messages in near real-time. Thus, current users can hear greetings of others who they missed. Advantageously, current users may spend more time using the system listening to messages of users no longer connected to the system.

Abstract: A method device and software facilitating exchange of messages at a computerized message exchange system are disclosed. The computerized message exchange system serves users associated with different introduction service providers. The system allows the different introduction service providers to pool users, so that users associated with a first service provider have access to greetings of users associated with other service providers, serviced at the system. Conveniently, access to greetings of various service providers and various users may be filtered, so that users of the first service provider only have access to users of selected other service providers, and to users having sanctioned interests.

Abstract: A message exchange server, method and software are disclosed. An exemplary exchange server allows a plurality of users to communicate with each other is operated so that paying users may communicate with all of the plurality of users using the device and non-paying users are restricted from communicating with other non-paying users. Example embodiments prevent non-paying users from hearing personal greetings of other non-paying users; non-paying users may from sending messages to non-paying users; or non-paying users may from bridging telephone calls with other non-paying users. Corresponding paying users, on the other hand, may hear all personal greetings; send messages to all users; bridge calls with all users. Additionally the server may allow a charge associated with sending a message from a message originator to a recipient at a message exchange server to be allocated based on an indicator received from the message originator.