A discussion object is like a folder that can contain only notes (see section 3.3.3).

The basic idea of discussion and notes resembles the popular Usenet news. The discussion corresponds to a newsgroup, the network of notes replying to earlier notes corresponds to a thread of articles posted. One major difference is that BSCW lets you control who may read a discussion or reply to a note by turning the discussion into a shared workspace of its own and by setting differentiated access rights.

In order to view the contributions of a discussion

• select  Contents  

or

• click the type icon or the name of the discussion

to display the list of notes in the discussion page.

Section 4.9 has all the details about discussion and notes. It also explains how notes are used to annotate documents and URL objects.