  Creating conferences
 NoteIf you just want to create a simple shared area, you can create a workspace instead. Creating a workspace is more straightforward than creating a conference. The tradeoff is that you have more control over conference behavior.
You can create conferences just as your administrator does. If you have trouble getting your conferences to work as you expect, contact your administrator.
To create a conference:
1 Open the container where you want the conference.
2 Choose New Conference from the Create field.
3 Select the template you want your conference to use.
4 Name your conference.
Select it, then choose Rename from the context menu.
After your conference has been created, you can:
• open it to customize the view
• update conference properties on the Info form.
5 Set conference permissions.
Setting conference permissions
To specify the permissions for your conference:
1 Open the conference.
2 Click Permissions.
3 Update the Permissions form.
We recommend that you select "Do not publish in Directory", so that your conference isn't in the Directory. This lets you name the conference whatever you want, without worrying about finding a unique name, and prevents users who shouldn't be seeing your conference from knowing about it.
Giving users access to conferences
You can make your conference available to users by:
• creating the conference in a container to which they have access
or
• subscribing them to your conference.
This puts a link to your conference on their Desktops.
To subscribe a user to your conference:
1 Open the conference.
2 Click Permissions.
3 Click Subscribers.
4 Enter the user's name at "Add subscriber" just as you would when addressing a message.
You can work with the subscribers in this list just as you can in the Directory list.
To remove a selected subscriber, click Remove Subscriber.
 TipYou can click the column headings in the subscribers list to sort the list, just as you can in other lists. This lets you display the subscriber names in alphabetical order.
Specifying mail handling rules for conferences
You can set up mail rules that tell FirstClass how to handle mail received by a conference.
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