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Keeping track of meetings

Discuss does not keep a central list of all Discuss meetings. Instead, it maintains a list for each user of the meetings that they attend. To specify a meeting you can use the meeting name, or your own abbreviation. In the future it may be possible to use another user's abbreviation by specifying the username in the command line. This approach allows users to have their own names for meetings. For example, the ``Discuss_development'' meeting could be known as ``discuss'' to one user, ``dsc'' to another, or both to yet another user. All this information, as well as the information needed by the client programs, is stored in a file called .meetings in your home directory. Without this file, Discuss will not be able to locate meetings.