CONFERENCES
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Messages on LuBBs are organised into conferences.

There are quite a few conferences covering a variety of subjects and not all of 
them may be of interest to you.  You may decide which conferences you wish to 
subscribe/unsubscribe to.

Initially you will be shown the last few messages in each conference, and if 
new conferences are later added, you will belong to these too.  It is 
recommended that you read a new message in each conference before unsubscribing 
as not all conferences are about what you might expect from the title!  There 
is also an Info File available for most conferences detailing the sorts of 
messages that go into that conference (press 'I' in the conference main menu).

If you are sure you want to unsubscribe, you can do this by pressing 'U' in the 
conference main menu.  If you later want to rejoin a conference, you can do 
this with the 'J' command in the LuBBs main menu.

Some conferences can get a lot of messages in a day, e.g. TALK, such 
conferences will have a relatively short auto-delete time, where messages are 
deleted after a set amount of days to stop the LuBBs account getting full up.

A record is kept of which messages you have read, and this is only saved when 
you logout from LuBBs.  If you are cut off, or forcibly logged off, this record 
may be lost and you will have to read the messages again.

Hidden Conferences
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As well as the normal conferences, there are also hidden conferences for course 
based discussions or, where necessary, society based conferences, where 
discussion in a normal conference may be inappropriate. (e.g. PULSAR discussing 
'unseen' episodes of SCI-FI programs).

To obtain access to such conferences, you will need to contact the organiser of 
that conference. Usually only those users who do the course associated with the 
conference will be permitted access.

Where <none> is specified for the organiser, access can be arranged by 
contacting the SysOp or a FairWitness.

The list of such conferences and organisers is:

Conference      Description                                    Organiser

ASSASSIN        For those interested in playing Assassin.      FORD PREFECT
                (A game in which you 'kill' other players.)

JUGGLING        For members of the Society of Lancaster        JIM BOB
                University Jugglers.

LUCS            For members of the Lancaster University        QUACKOWOTSIT
                Computing Society.

LURPS           For members of Lancaster University            JACK FROST
                Role-playing Society.

PULSAR          For PULSAR discussions/or where                WILLOW
                discussion of unseen sci-fi progs
                might annoy users.

SECRET-FRENCH   For users doing a French course.

SECRET-HISTORY  For users doing history.                       BIG-MOUSTACHE

SECRET-MUSIC    For those students doing music.                HEDGEHOG

ULMS            For the Univ. Lancaster Music Society.         HEDGEHOG