This also makes old discussions available as an information resource. Motet keeps track of each user's place in all topics of discussion, enabling the user to automatically pick up where he left off every time he logs on. A personalized list of conferences lets the user focus on the subjects that interest him with a minimum amount of navigation. These features make it easy to participate in several discussions at once, to keep up with everything that is said, and to take as much time as one needs to formulate thoughts on a subject, without the tedium of managing, saving, deleting, and making decisions about email. The conversation runs itself.
Participants can read and respond with only a few mouse clicks.
Conferences, Topics, and Postings Motet groups conversations into conferences by broad subject area. For example, there might be a conference on politics, another on sports, and another on food. Educators might use many conferences as classrooms, and others for administrative functions such as semester schedules, bulletin boards, faculty meetings, etc. Each conference consists of numbered topics. The topic is nominally a single discussion about a particular subject.