View Web Document Discussions You can view discussions in a Web page or document.
Author Web Document Discussions In addition to Read Discussions permission, you can reply to discussion comments, add new comments, and you can edit and delete your own comments.
Close Web Document Discussions In addition to Author Discussions permission, you can close discussion comments.
Manage Web Document Discussions In addition to Author Discussions permission, you can delete discussions on the Web server. You must use administration software on the Web server to manage discussions.
Subscription permissionsSubscribe To Document You can subscribe to pages, folders, and discussions, and you can cancel your own subscriptions.
Manage Web Subscriptions In addition to Subscribe permission, you can delete subscriptions on the Web server. You must use administration software on the Web server to manage subscriptions.
Note On a discussion server running Windows SharePoint Services, you cannot create subscriptions by using the Web Discussions toolbar. For information about creating alerts, which replace subscriptions in Windows SharePoint Services, see Windows SharePoint Services Help.