A system, method and apparatus for facilitating communication among a number
of
distributed clients in a distributed network is disclosed. A user, such as through
a personal digital assistant device, may select one or more instant messages for
transmission to one or more other users in the network. The instant messages may
be sound instant message and/or text instant messages. During messaging, message
status indicators provide users with the status of their respective messages. In
one embodiment, the messages may be deemed to be either pending or received as
distinguished by a pending status indicator and a received status indicator.