DBabble can be managed entirely from within it's user interface by any user with administrative privileges, or, for increased security, from specified IP addresses. DBabble provides chat rooms and discussion groups that can be created by any user who has permission to do so, and discussions can be linked to usenet (NNTP) groups and interfaced to email. DBabble can act as an NNTP server so that news-readers can read DBabble discussions as if they are newsgroups. DBabble also operates as an SMTP server for the purpose of accepting incoming mail intended as articles for it's discussion groups. This lets users instruct DBabble to email any new articles in a particular discussion group directly to them. Chat rooms and discussions can be made private so that only specified users have access to them. Purchasers have the option of running DBabble as a stand-alone server, or linking it to other servers worldwide, thus allowing users to communicate globally in a scalable way.