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. For example, the Discuss_development meeting could be known as discuss to one user, dsc to another, or by 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.