No, in guild settings there are check boxes for broadcasts, which were added about a week before Gaia IMs were releases, and were a way for group IMing. It failed because the IM client was horrible and no one used it.
EDIT: The feature failed so hard that it isn't even linked around the gold counter any more.
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