Hello. I put in a help request earlier basically just like this not too long ago. But I'm having a problem with it. I want to instant message someone who is NOT on my network, let's just say in a different state...and i want to message them using Command Prompt. Someone told me that i should put it in this format...

net send <ipaddress> MESSAGE HERE

Well..when I do that, it gives me this message back...

An error occurred while sending a message to 255.255.255.255. The message alias cound not be found on the network. More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2273.

I do that help file, and it doesn't help. Please send me detailed instructions on how to do this. Thank you SO much!