He is encouraging users to upgrade their browsers. Frank demoed the site, including the discussion forums. In the forums, each topic is its own thread. A table displays the threads along with the number of messages contained in each and the date of the last message. Threads are sorted chronologically, most to least recent.
Users can change their passwords and update their profiles.
Frank figures it took him 80 hours of solid work to set up the AlumNet forum system. Carol mentioned that Allaire his picked up on the forums idea and is now marketing it commercially. In recent weeks, Frank has been experimenting with net. A Webmaster function allows him to go in and delete messages, create new forums, conferences, etc. It is programmed in Perl.