Discuss web gateway help

root help

This page describes the meanings of various icon links that appear on this gateway (as well as word links that are used instead of icons if your browser doesn't support inlined images). It also describes how to make non-public discuss meetings accessible to certain people using the MIT certificate support in this server.

Links on all pages

root Returns to the gateway root page.
help Displays this page.

Links in meeting listings

up Displays the preceding portion of the listing.
down Displays the next portion of the listing.
first Displays the listing starting from the first transaction.
last Displays the listing of the last transactions in the meeting.
post Enters a transaction in the current meeting.
find Searches transactions in the current meeting.

Links in transactions

back Displays the listing of the current meeting.
first Displays the first transaction in the current meeting.
first in chain Displays the first transaction in the same chain.
previous in chain Displays the previous transaction in the same chain.
prev Displays the previous transaction.
next Displays the next transaction.
next in chain Displays the next transaction in the same chain.
last in chain Displays the last transaction in the same chain.
last Displays the last transaction in the current meeting.
post Enters a reply to the current transaction.

Inactive icons

In some conditions, actions caused by some of the symbols would be meaningless (e.g., going to "next" from the last transaction in a meeting). In this case, graphics clients display "inactive" versions of the icons, and in the text clients, the words are omitted. The inactive icons look like this:


MIT certificate support

In order to make a non-public meeting accessible only to authorized users via this gateway, you need to place the daemon.diswww@ATHENA.MIT.EDU principal on the ACL for the meeting in question, giving it rs access bits to allow read access or arsw bits to allow read-write access.

Using the command-line discuss client, this can be done as follows: 

discuss:  g meeting_name
discuss:  set_acl rs daemon.diswww@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Originally written by Albert Dvornik <bert@mit.edu>; gateway rewritten and currently maintained by ops@mit.edu.