The NetWinder allows you to create discussion forums, which are online areas in which users can post messages either for everyone or to share with their particular workgroup.
When you click Discussions from the User Home page, you will see a screen offering two options:
Public discussion forums. These are discussion groups open to anyone and everyone who has access to the NetWinder, which normally means everyone at your company. If your NetWinder's web server is open to the Internet (see Firewall Settings), even people outside your company can see and participate in discussions.
Private discussion forums. These discussion areas have restricted readership; only users with accounts on your NetWinder can access them. See the section called User Accounts in the chapter User and Group Account Management for information on setting up user accounts.
If you have administrative access on the NetWinder, you can create public and private discussion groups as described in the chapter called Configuring Network Services.