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Message forums are simply conversations that take place in the web site. It allows people to post a topic, or replies to a topic at their convenience in the forum and the conversation develops like any other conversation would. Sometimes topics stray, sometimes they stay on course, but in the end it's a great tool for interactive conversation.
Message forums are available in all packages.
Message forums within Drupal are very easy to implement. First, the module relies on two other modules. When enabling the forum module you must also enable taxonomy and comment modules. You don't need to know anything about the support modules, you just need to make sure they are enabled.
After that is done, simply navigate to "Administer > Content management > Forum" to set up the forum. When setting it up you will find two available components, those being the container and the forum. A container is simply a way to group forums of a similar theme. The forum is exactly what it sounds like, it's a forum to put within each container, however, forums do not need to be in a container, they can reside outside of a container.
Once your forum hierarchy is completed, you can also tweak the forum settings, which are very basic. The available settings consist of setting the default order of posts, meaning oldest to newest or newest to oldest, how many topics are displayed on each page before paginating them, and how many posts it takes to mark a forum as a "hot topic".