Netscape Collabra enables you to participate in Collabra discussion groups.
When you list discussion groups available to you, you can subscribe to them, or you can browse without subscribing.

1/2 GETTING STARTED

A- Opening Your Discussion Groups Server

Learn how to open your groups server, so you can access, update, and subscribe to discussion groups it hosts. To open your groups server:

1. Open your Message Centre by clicking Discussion Groups on the component bar, which can float on your desktop or reside in the lower-right corner of any Communicator window:

2. Open your primary groups server by opening the control to the left of the server name.

To open a groups server other than your primary server, select the groups server and open its control.

 

B- Subscribing to Discussion Groups

To  access easily and organise discussion groups you are interested in, keep a list of discussion groups to which you are subscribed. When you open your groups server, Netscape Collabra automatically updates groups to which you subscribe on that server.

Use the Subscribe to Discussion Groups dialog box to list discussion groups available on from your current groups server. To open the Subscribe to Discussion Groups dialog box:

1. Open your Message Centre by clicking Discussions on the component bar.
   
2. On the toolbar of your Message Centre window, click Subscribe, which brings up the Subscribe to Discussion dialog box.

 

C- Listing All Available Discussion Groups

Use the List All Groups tab to:

• Select news servers whose available discussion groups you want to inspect.

• Display all available discussion groups and subscribe to discussions whose entries you select from the list.

To use the List All Groups panel:

· To view an entry in the discussion list, in the Discussion Group field, type the name of the discussion whose entry you want to view.

· If you feel displaying the list is taking too long, click Stop, which stops your Discussions server from sending the remainder of the discussion group list.

· To make it easier to scan the list, click Collapse All, which collapses the list into types of discussion groups.

· To view the full hierarchy of discussion groups, click Expand All.

· To subscribe to the currently selected discussion click Subscribe or, click the checkbox on the right side of the discussion group's list entry.

 

 

2/2 GETTING AROUND

Searching for Discussion Groups

To list available discussion groups the descriptions of which contain a keyword,  click  the Search for a Discussion tab:

1. At Search for, enter a keyword that represents any part of a discussion name.
   
2. From the On Server menu, choose a server whose discussion groups you want to search.
   
3. Click Search Now.
   
4. After search results display, subscribe to a discussion whose name is listed by clicking the entry in the list .
   
5. Click OK to add the subscribed entries to your subscription list.