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-<h2><a name="s16">14.</a> <a href="sylpheed.html#toc16">NetNews</a></h2>
-<p>What is netnews?</p>
-<p>Netnews, also called Usenet, is a collection of "news servers" that
-contain a great deal of information. News, as it is called in short,
-can be about anything. About making your own wine, about old cars or
-radios. You name it, and there probably is a newsgroup about it.</p>
-<p>This is what we will set up here. Accessing newsgroups. Note that
-this is different from e-mails. You can almost compare it to a mailing
-list, but yet the concept is a bit different.</p>
-<h2><a name="ss16.1">14.1</a> <a href="sylpheed.html#toc16.1">Adding
-and Deleting Servers</a>
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-<h3>Adding a news server</h3>
-<p>To add a news server, go to the configuration menu and select the
-"Create new account" option.
-There you can name the news-account to anything of your liking. This is
-important, so you can identify the account later.</p>
-<p>In the BASIC tab, in the block 'personal information' you also can
-enter your own name, your e-mail address (so you can reply to news
-message by e-mail), optionally your organization (if you are organized
-at all).</p>
-<p>In the block 'Server information' you select the "News (NNTP)"
-protocol. Forget about "Inbox", that does not matter in this setup.
-Next you enter the name of the newsserver you want to connect to. You
-can get that name from your ISP, if you don't already have that.</p>
-<p>If you need to log into the news server, check the box next to "This
-server requires authentication", and then fill the fields for User ID
-and Password.</p>
-<p>Next step is to go to the Send tab. Since Receive is only there for
-e-mail, there is no need to do anything there. You can't even do
-anything in the Receive tab, for that matter. So, in Send you can
-select a few options:
-</p>
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- <li>If you want a date header field added to posts</li>
- <li>If Sylpheed-Claws should generate a Message-ID</li>
- <li>If you want to add user-defined headers</li>
-</ul>
-The next items only apply to when you reply to a news message through
-e-mail. You can set an automatic CC, BCC or Reply-To address here. In
-case your ISP requires SMTP authentication, you can select the checkbox
-here below.
-<p></p>
-<p>The next tab, Compose, allows you to select a default signature
-file. This will be added to each post to the newsgroups you do.</p>
-<p>Finally, in the "Advanced" tab, you can specify the port on which
-Sylpheed-Claws has to connect to the news server. The default is 119, and
-only in rare cases you should have to do something about that.</p>
-<p>Now you click "OK" and the account is created! You can verify this
-by checking the folder pane in Sylpheed. There you will see a new
-folder created with the name of the account you entered, and (news)
-behind it.</p>
-<h3>Deleting a news-server.</h3>
-<p>If you want to delete a news-account, right-click the news-folder
-and select "Remove news account". After confirming that you want this
-to be done, the account and all files related will be removed.</p>
-<h2><a name="ss16.2">14.2</a> <a href="sylpheed.html#toc16.2">Subscribing
-and Unsubscribing to NewsGroups</a>
-</h2>
-<p>Okay. Here the real stuff begins. First you have to let Sylpheed
-load the list of news groups that is on the news system. Right-click
-the new NEWS folder and select "Subscribe to newsgroups". Sylpheed-Claws will
-tell you that the groups need to be downloaded, so sit back and wait a
-while. Of course, during time, new groups are added, and dead groups
-are removed. For this you can click the "refresh" button in the
-newsgroup dialog, so a new list is downloaded and you are up to date</p>
-<p>After a while the groups are loaded and displayed in a window. Now
-you can look up a group that is interesting, for example
-comp.os.linux.networking. Click the name once and then select OK. The
-group will be added to the news folder as a subfolder. When you now
-click the name of the new subfolder, Sylpheed-Claws will connect to the news
-server and download the headers (subject lines, in e-mail talk), to
-your computer. Some groups have -large- amounts of articles, so this
-may take a while!!</p>
-<h2><a name="ss16.3">14.3</a> <a href="sylpheed.html#toc16.3">Reading
-News</a>
-</h2>
-<p>When the articles are displayed, in the summary view, you can click
-one of them to be downloaded so you can read it. This will usually go
-very quickly on discussion groups.</p>
-<p>If you want to respond to a message, press Alt-R (or press "Reply")
-and a message window will pop up, with the name of the newsgroup
-already in the "To" field. Depending on whether or not you selected
-quoting of the message, the original message will be in the body of the
-message already. Write away, then send, and soon the entire world will
-be able to read what you wrote on the subject.</p>
-<p>Starting a new message in a newsgroup is equally simple: press Alt-N
-(or click "New"), the name of the newsgroup is in the "To" field, and
-you can write your question or reply.</p>
-<h3>A note about binary files</h3>
-<p>In newsgroups you can download binary files. These are programs,
-images etc. Often these are posted as so called UUencoded files.
-Sylpheed-Claws will as upto version 0.5.1 not decode UUencoded files. You
-need to save these articles to disk as separate files, and use a
-separate decoder program, like juju, to decode the garble of text. A
-UUencoded file usually looks something like this:</p>
-<p>begin 666 sundown.jpg</p>
-<p>after which you will find nicely formatted blocks of characters that
-don't seem to mean anything.</p>
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