Go to the User Settings page. In your Personal Nodelet, add an entry saying 
<form method="post" action="?"><font size="-4"><input type="hidden" na
+me="node_id" value="3193" /><input type="hidden" name="op" value="mes
+sage" /><input type="text" name="message" value="" size="30" maxlengt
+h="255" /><input type="submit" name="message_send" value="talk" /></f
+ont></form>

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Than, you can talk or send a private message even if you don't have the cb nodelet enabled (you must enable the Personal Nodelet of course).

In reply to Re: Private messages without chatterbox by ambrus
in thread Private messages without chatterbox by DrHyde

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