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   Take Control of Slack Basics: Chapter 7, Conduct Direct Message
   Conversations

   Glenn Fleishman

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Chapter 7: Conduct Direct Message Conversations

   In Slack, direct messages, also called DMs, are used for one-on-one
   conversations and for group conversations with up to nine people total.

Is It a Conversation or a DM? Yes.

   We need to clear up a bit of nomenclature before diving into this
   chapter. While Slack organizes these interactions under the Direct
   Messages heading in the sidebar, and often describes them as DMs, the
   interface and the help documents also more broadly refer to direct
   messages as conversations. Slack does sometimes distinguish between
   discussions between two people (calling them DMs) and chats among three
   or more people (referring to them as conversations). However, it's all
   the same thing.

   I'm going to call them all conversations except when I refer to text in
   the interface that says 'direct message,' or when I refer to the act of
   messaging directly.

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