Bulletin boards are public mail folders to which you may send or move messages. Messages in a bulletin board may be read by any user who has sufficient access rights. Furthermore, users may reply to specific messages in the bulletin board. Consequently, bulletin boards may be used as discussion groups, working in a similar way to news groups on the Internet.
The fundamental difference between bulletin boards and mail folders is that it is possible for users to reply to messages held within bulletin boards rather than to the authors of the messages. OfficeTalk represents a reply to a message by indenting the message reply underneath the original message. The replies to a particular message may be displayed by pressing the {bmct help0145.bmp} button to the left of the message entry.
Note: OfficeTalk displays any unread messages in a bold font. Any messages that you have read are displayed in the normal font chosen for the message list window.
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Sending Messages to a Bulletin Board
Replying to a Bulletin Board Message
Editing Messages Posted to a Bulletin Board