We will consider coactions of discrete groups on C*-algebras and imitate some of the results about compact group actions on C*-algebras. In particular, the crossed product of a reduced coaction e of a discrete amenable group G on A is liminal (respectively, postliminal) if and only if the fixed point algebra of e is. Moreover, we will also consider ergodic coactions on C* -algebras.1991 Mathematics subject classification (Amer. Math. Soc): 46L55.