A forum can be connected to a Usenet News newsgroup, so that KOM users can read and write Usenet News articles. Each forum has a description, a list of members and a list of contributions. It is possible to see how far each member of a forum has read in the forum. Each forum, thread and message has its own URL, so that bookmarks or links anywhere on the WWW can refer directly to a particular forum, thread or message. Can be either secret ballots or open reports on who answered what.
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Contributions are read one forum at a time, and within a forum, one thread at a time. There is a simple tool for rapidly scanning through all new contributions in a forum and for viewing all contributions in an entire forum on a single web page. It is also possible to participate through e-mail. To an e-mail user, KOM 2000 looks like a mailing list server. The user interface has been carefully designed through many interactions of prototype building and user testing with non-computer experts, to make it simple and easy to overview for everyone .