Patent ID: 7702735

Claim:
A client computer for controlling delivery of information in a forum having a plurality of participants, the client computer comprises: means for connecting to a server computer hosting a plurality of forums each having a respective plurality of participants; means for providing a plurality of different versions of a message to a particular forum of the plurality of forums each one of different versions of the message for a corresponding set of the participants according to a privilege level of the corresponding set, means for submitting the different versions of the message to the forum for causing the server computer to make available each version of the message to the corresponding set of the participants according to the privilege level of the corresponding set, and a table comprising a forum identification record for each of the plurality of forums, wherein each forum identification record has stored therein a corresponding forum identifier and a corresponding list of privileged participants of a particular forum, wherein the list in each forum identification record is customizable by a user of the client computer.