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+<!-- <?xml version="1.0" ?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//KDE//DTD DocBook XML V4.2-Based Variant V1.1//EN" "dtd/kdex.dtd">
+
+-->
+<sect1 id="subscribing"> 
+<title>Working with newsgroups</title> 
+
+<para>After the configuration of &knode; we will now try to get your
+first news; to achieve this, you need to do some more steps of
+configuration, but you will not have to do this very often.</para>
+
+<sect2 id="fetch-group-list">
+<title>Fetching the group-list from the news server</title> 
+
+<anchor id="anc-fetch-group-list"/>
+
+<para>If you want to read a newsgroup you first have to subscribe to
+it.  &RMB;-click with your mouse on the entry of your newsserver in the
+folder-list; from the context menu that appears select the 
+<guimenuitem>Subscribe to Newsgroups</guimenuitem> entry. &knode;, at
+this moment, does not know which newsgroups are available from this
+server and will ask you if it should fetch a list of available
+newsgroups: confirm with <guibutton>Yes</guibutton>.  Now you should
+see the following dialog.</para>
+
+<screenshot> 
+<screeninfo>The <guilabel>Subscribe to
+Newsgroups</guilabel> Dialog</screeninfo> 
+<mediaobject> 
+<imageobject> 
+<imagedata fileref="knode-subscribe.png" format="PNG"/> </imageobject> 
+<textobject> 
+<phrase>The <guilabel>Subscribe to
+Newsgroups</guilabel> dialog</phrase> 
+</textobject> 
+<caption> 
+<para>The <guilabel>Subscribe to
+Newsgroups</guilabel> dialog</para> 
+</caption> 
+</mediaobject> 
+</screenshot> 
+
+<para>After some time &knode; will has fetched the list of available
+newsgroups and will show them in the left window, <guilabel>Groups
+on</guilabel>, in a tree; this tree view shows the
+newsgroup hierarchy.</para>
+
+<tip>
+<para>You can find a short description about the structure of the usenet
+and the hierarchy of the single newsgroups at <ulink
+url="http://www.kirchwitz.de/~amk/dni/usenet-einfuehrung">http://www.kirchwitz.de/~amk/dni/usenet-einfuehrung</ulink>
+(German).</para>
+</tip>
+
+<sect3>
+<title><guilabel>Search</guilabel></title>
+
+<para>The simplest method to navigate in the tree is to use
+the <guilabel>Search</guilabel> input field: &knode; will filter the groups
+displayed according to your input. If you are searching for
+a group about &kde;, but you do not know its exact position in the
+hierarchy, just type <userinput>kde</userinput> in the
+<guilabel>Search</guilabel> field.</para>
+
+<para>When you enter the <userinput>k</userinput>, you will already
+see the list changing; the second letter, <userinput>d</userinput>,
+give you a significantly-reduced list of shown groups; and the final
+<userinput>e</userinput> reduces the list to the groups with kde in
+their name.  You will most likely end with just one group:</para>
+
+<simplelist> 
+<member>comp.windows.x.kde</member> 
+</simplelist> 
+
+<para>If your server carries the international groups, you might find
+your list is:</para>
+
+<simplelist> 
+<member>comp.windows.x.kde</member> 
+<member>de.comp.os.unix.apps.kde</member> 
+</simplelist> 
+
+<para>This incremental search gives you the possibility to search for
+newsgroups without knowing their exact paths.</para> 
+
+<tip> 
+<para>On a closer look, you will see &knode; showing the groups without
+a tree if there are only a few groups left; this is not a bug, it is a
+feature.</para> 
+</tip> 
+</sect3> 
+
+<sect3> 
+<title><guilabel>disable tree view</guilabel></title> 
+
+<para>Normally &knode; shows all the groups in a tree; if this option
+is activated, all newsgroups are listed amongst one another.</para> 
+
+</sect3> 
+
+<sect3> 
+<title> 
+<guilabel>subscribed only</guilabel></title> 
+
+<para>If <guilabel>subscribed only</guilabel> is checked the
+tree-view <guilabel>Groups on</guilabel> shows only the groups you are
+already subscribed to; this is very convenient if you want to
+unsubscribe from some groups: you then won't have to search the whole tree
+for these groups.</para> 
+
+</sect3> 
+
+<sect3> 
+<title><guilabel>new only</guilabel></title> 
+
+<para>If <guilabel>new only</guilabel> is checked the tree-view
+<guilabel>Groups on</guilabel> shows only the groups which are new
+since you last fetched the group list; for this to be functional, you
+first have to fetch a new group list with <guibutton>New
+List</guibutton>.</para> 
+
+<para>The <guibutton>New Groups</guibutton> button give the
+possibility to show all the new groups since a specific date.</para> 
+
+</sect3> 
+
+<sect3> 
+<title><guilabel>Groups on</guilabel></title> 
+
+<para>This list shows all newsgroups on this server; if you check one
+of the checkboxes, <guilabel>subscribed only</guilabel> or
+<guilabel>new only</guilabel>, you get the corresponding
+selection.</para> 
+
+</sect3> 
+
+<sect3> 
+<title><guilabel>Current changes</guilabel></title> 
+
+<para>The <guilabel>Current changes</guilabel> window shows all
+changes you have made since you opened the dialog.</para> 
+
+<para>The <guilabel>subscribe to</guilabel> list shows the newsgroups
+you have chosen to subscribe to.</para> 
+
+<para>Below you can see the <guilabel>unsubscribe
+from</guilabel> list, which shows all newsgroups from which you have chosen to
+unsubscribe. You cannot unsubscribe from groups you are not
+subscribed to.</para> 
+
+</sect3> 
+
+<sect3> 
+<title><guilabel>New Groups</guilabel></title> 
+
+<para>This button opens a dialog which allows you to configure the list
+of new groups; you can choose between showing all groups since the
+last refresh or all groups since a given date. With the date option,
+&knode; provides a more-flexible possibility to check for new
+groups; you can even check for new groups since before the last refresh of
+the group list.</para> 
+
+</sect3> 
+
+<sect3> 
+<title><guibutton>New List</guibutton></title> 
+
+<para>The <guibutton>New List</guibutton> button tells &knode; to
+fetch a new group list from the news server.</para> 
+
+
+<para>The newsgroup hierarchy is in a constant flux; all the time
+there are groups introduced, renamed or moved; some groups just
+disappear: they are no longer available and get deleted. To reflect
+this, &knode; gives you the possibility to refresh the the group
+list. This is, normally, only needed to see if your server now
+provides a group which was not there before.</para> 
+
+<tip>
+<para>If you simply want to make sure you have seen every new group, it is
+more effective to use <guibutton>New Groups</guibutton>; fetching the
+complete list is much more time consuming, but you do make sure that any
+deleted groups vanish from the grouplist.</para> 
+</tip> 
+
+<para>Unfortunately there is no guarantee that your newsserver is
+providing all available newsgroups: many newsserver refuse groups
+publishing binary attachments; other groups are only available from
+special servers. &knode; provides you the possibility to use more than
+one news-server if you want to access alternative servers providing
+these groups; you can read more about this in <xref
+linkend="multiple-news-accounts"/> .</para>
+
+</sect3> 
+
+<sect3> 
+<title>Working with the dialog</title> 
+
+<para>We now want to subscribe to the &kde; group: mark the the box
+beside the name; you can now see the group in the list labelled
+<guilabel>subscribe to</guilabel>. Another possibility is to use the
+arrows between the two windows.</para> 
+
+<para>If you picked the wrong newsgroup by mistake you can undo your
+selection by unchecking the checkbox next to the group's name in the
+<guilabel>Groups on</guilabel> window; again, you could use the
+arrow (you probably noticed the arrow changing direction.)</para> 
+
+<para>If you want to unsubscribe from a newsgroup it is as easy as
+subscribing to it: you just uncheck the box next to its name. The groups
+you wish to unsubscribe from are shown in the <guilabel>unsubscribe
+from</guilabel> list. Again, the arrow is another way of doing things: to
+correct your actions you can use the arrow again; this works as
+long as the dialog is not closed by clicking
+<guibutton>OK</guibutton>.</para>
+
+<para>As a &kde; and &knode; user you will probably want to subscribe
+to the group, so make sure you checked the box and press
+<guibutton>OK</guibutton>. This group now appears in the tree view
+under the server entry it was chosen from; in our example this is
+<emphasis>My News Account</emphasis>. If you can not see the group,
+click on the cross next to the server entry or on the server entry
+itself; the list of subscribed newsgroups should appear.</para>
+
+<para>Click on the newsgroup; now you see on the right in the article
+view an empty folder: &knode; has to fetch the articles for the new
+newsgroup. If you have, in
+<menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure
+KNode</guimenuitem><guimenuitem>Reading
+news</guimenuitem><guimenuitem>General</guimenuitem></menuchoice>, the
+check box <guilabel>Check for new article automatically</guilabel>
+checked &knode; tries to fetch the articles from the server when the
+newsgroup is first selected; if this is unchecked, you have to use
+<menuchoice><guimenu>Account</guimenu><guimenuitem>Get new
+articles</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.</para>
+
+<important> 
+<para>When you are using <application>leafnode</application> as a
+server, there will be a single article in the
+group: <application>leafnode</application> generates an article in
+every new subscribed group; this indicates that 
+<application>leafnode</application> will consider this group the next
+time it fetches articles. You can ignore an error message saying the
+article can not be found. If you select this article you tell
+<application>leafnode</application> you are really interested in this
+group.</para> 
+
+<para>You get the real articles when your local newsserver fetches
+them from the Internet and provides them to you; details about this
+can be found in the documentation of your local newsserver.</para> 
+</important> 
+
+<para>When everything works the articles of the subscribed newsgroup
+appear in the upper right window &mdash; the article view.</para> 
+
+</sect3> 
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2 id="fetch-and-read-news"> 
+<title>Fetching and reading Articles</title> 
+
+<para>&knode; always shows three views: the folder view, the article view and
+the article window; you can change height and width of these views with
+the mouse. If you click in a window it gets the focus; this is
+important if you want to use &knode; with the keyboard. The
+<keycap>Tab</keycap> key changes the focus between the views; the
+currently-active view is indicated by a small colored bar over the
+column headers.</para> 
+
+<para>This picture shows &knode; with the subscribed &kde;
+newsgroup.</para>
+
+<screenshot> 
+<screeninfo>The three views of &knode;</screeninfo> 
+<mediaobject> 
+<imageobject> 
+<imagedata fileref="knode-views.png" format="PNG"/> </imageobject> 
+<textobject> 
+<phrase>The three views of &knode;</phrase> 
+</textobject> 
+<caption> 
+<para>The three views of &knode;</para> 
+</caption>
+</mediaobject> 
+</screenshot> 
+
+<para>It is possible to select more than one group or article. You can
+select an area by clicking on the first entry with the &LMB;, holding
+the &Shift; key and clicking on the last entry with the &LMB;
+again.</para> 
+
+<para>If you want to select more than one single entry, but they are
+not next to each other in the list, you have to select the first by
+clicking on it with the &LMB; and then select the other entries by
+holding down the &Ctrl; key and clicking on them with the &LMB;.</para>
+
+<para>In either case you can clear your selection by clicking on
+another entry with the &LMB;.</para>
+
+<caution>
+<para> 
+If you have selected more than one entry you have to activate the
+context menu with the &Shift; key pressed, otherwise you'll clear the
+selection.</para> 
+</caution> 
+
+<sect3> 
+<title>The Folder View</title> 
+
+<para>The folder views contains not only the accounts you configured
+&mdash; in our example this is <emphasis>My News Account</emphasis>
+&mdash; but also three other folders. When you are subscribed to some
+newsgroups there will be plus next to the name of the
+account: clicking on the plus or the name of the account opens the
+tree to show the names of the newsgroups you have chosen to subscribe
+to using that account.</para>
+
+<tip> 
+<para>Using the &RMB; you can get a context menu for the selected item
+(folders or newsgroups): if you select a newsgroup and choose
+Properties you can, amongst other things, specify your identity for
+this particular group; you can find more about this in the 
+<link linkend="group-identity">Local Identities</link> chapter.</para>
+</tip>
+
+<para>When you select a newsgroup with your mouse a list of articles
+of this group appears in the upper-right window; if there are no
+articles in the upper-right window there are two possibilities &mdash;
+either there are no articles for this newsgroup on the newsserver
+or the newsserver did not fetch them yet.  Select
+<menuchoice><guimenu>Account</guimenu><guimenuitem>Get new articles in
+all groups</guimenuitem></menuchoice>: if there are still no articles
+appearing you either have some problems with your settings or there really
+are no articles for this group.  Try another group: if there are no
+articles for this group you will probably have to work through the
+first chapters, about the configuration of &knode;, again; the 
+<link linkend="faq">Frequently Asked Questions</link> chapter may help you,
+too.</para>
+
+<caution> 
+<para>If you are using a local newsserver the articles only appear if
+the newsserver has already got them from the internet; if you are using
+<application>leafnode</application> this is done by the 
+<command>fetchnews</command> program.</para>
+</caution> 
+
+<sect4> 
+<title>The Newsgroup Folders</title> 
+
+<para>The newsgroup folders appear with the name they are given by the
+hierarchy on the newsserver; in our example this is
+<guilabel>comp.windows.x.kde</guilabel>. You can change the name shown
+in this view: in the context menu (click with the &RMB; on the
+newsgroup's name) choose <menuchoice><guimenuitem>Rename
+group</guimenuitem></menuchoice>, then you can change the name in the
+input field. A good name for <guilabel>comp.windows.x.kde</guilabel>
+would be, for example, <guilabel>The KDE Newsgroup</guilabel>.</para>
+
+<para>If you don't change this, the hierarchical name will still be shown.</para>
+
+<para>Besides the name of newsgroups the folder view shows more
+information by altering its appearance: if a newsgroup contains
+new articles its name is shown bold; the columns
+<guilabel>Total</guilabel> and <guilabel>Unread</guilabel> also tell you
+how many articles are in the corresponding group or folder and how many
+are marked as unread.</para> 
+
+</sect4> 
+
+<sect4> 
+<title>The <guilabel>Outbox</guilabel> folder</title> 
+
+<para>The <guilabel>Outbox</guilabel> folder contains all articles
+which are to be sent later, or which could not be sent because
+of an error. If you want to sent an article later choose
+<menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Send
+Later</guimenuitem></menuchoice> in the editor: the article is then
+filed in the <guilabel>Outbox</guilabel> folder; it is possible to
+edit, delete or send these articles later.</para> 
+
+<tip> 
+<para>If an article was not sent because of an error, it is stored in
+this folder; you will not lose these articles.</para> 
+</tip> 
+</sect4> 
+
+<sect4> 
+<title>The <guilabel>Drafts</guilabel> folder</title> 
+
+<para>This folder is used for storing drafts of your articles; for
+example, if you want to do some further work on them but you have no
+time for it right now. To store an article in this folder
+choose <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Save as
+Draft</guimenuitem></menuchoice> in the editor.</para> 
+
+<para>You can edit, delete and send the articles in this
+folder.</para> 
+
+</sect4> 
+
+<sect4> 
+<title>The <guilabel>Sent</guilabel> Folder</title> 
+
+<para>This folder contains copies of the articles that you have successfully
+sent, including your e-mail replies; you can delete the messages in
+this folder, but it will not un-send the messages already
+sent.</para> 
+
+<caution> 
+<para>If your are using a local newsserver an article appearing in
+the folder <guilabel>Sent</guilabel> only indicates the local
+newsserver received the article; it is possible this article will never
+appears in any newsgroup if the local newsserver was not able to
+send it for some reason. If you notice some articles not appearing in
+the according newsgroup first make sure it was sent by the local
+newsserver.</para> 
+</caution> 
+
+<tip> 
+<para>If you are using <application>leafnode</application> then articles
+leafnode was unable to send are normally found in
+<filename>/var/spool/failed.postings</filename>.</para> 
+</tip> 
+</sect4> 
+</sect3> 
+
+<sect3> 
+<title>The Article View</title> 
+
+<para>The article view gives you a list of all articles in the
+selected newsgroup or folder; you can change the appearance of this
+view using the <guimenu>View</guimenu> menu. The uppermost row of the
+view contains the column headers.</para> 
+
+<variablelist> 
+<varlistentry> 
+<term><guilabel>Subject</guilabel></term> 
+<listitem> 
+<para>The <guilabel>Subject</guilabel> column shows the subjects of
+an articles which, most of the time, give you a clue about the content
+of this article. The subject is chosen by the article author. You can
+find more about this in <link linkend="post-and-mail-news">How to post
+and reply to news</link>.</para> 
+</listitem> 
+</varlistentry> 
+<varlistentry> 
+<term><guilabel>From</guilabel></term> 
+<listitem> 
+<para>The <guilabel>From</guilabel> column shows the author, or their
+e-mail address if the author didn't give a name. You can configure
+your settings in
+<menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure
+KNode</guimenuitem><guilabel>Identity</guilabel></menuchoice>; when
+you publish an article &knode; will show these settings in the
+<guilabel>From</guilabel> column.</para> 
+</listitem> 
+</varlistentry> 
+<varlistentry> 
+<term><guilabel>Score</guilabel></term>
+<listitem> 
+<para>The <guilabel>Score</guilabel> column shows the scoring of an
+article as a number; the default is 0. Articles which are important to
+you can be scored up; articles you want to ignore can be scored
+down: the range is -100000 to +100000. You can read more about this in
+the <link linkend="score-watch-ignore">Scoring, Watching and
+Ignoring</link> chapter.</para> 
+<para>The <guilabel>Score</guilabel> column is only shown if
+<menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure
+KNode...</guimenuitem><guilabel>Reading
+News</guilabel><guilabel>General</guilabel><guilabel>Show article
+score</guilabel></menuchoice> is activated.</para> 
+</listitem> 
+</varlistentry> 
+<varlistentry> 
+<term><guilabel>Date</guilabel></term> 
+<listitem> 
+<para>The <guilabel>Date</guilabel> column shows the date and time
+when the article was written.</para> 
+</listitem> 
+</varlistentry> 
+<varlistentry> 
+<term><guilabel>Lines</guilabel></term> 
+<listitem> 
+<para>The <guilabel>Lines</guilabel> column shows the number of lines
+of the <glossterm>article</glossterm>; this column is only shown if
+<menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure
+KNode...</guimenuitem><guilabel>Reading
+News</guilabel><guilabel>General</guilabel><guilabel>Show line
+count</guilabel></menuchoice> is activated.</para> 
+</listitem> 
+</varlistentry> 
+</variablelist> 
+
+<sect4> 
+<title>The Symbols and Highlighting Used</title>
+
+<para>This is a short explanation of the different symbols for
+labeling articles.</para> 
+
+<itemizedlist> 
+<listitem> 
+<para><inlinemediaobject> 
+<imageobject> 
+<imagedata fileref="greyball.png" format="PNG"/> </imageobject>
+</inlinemediaobject> 
+Already-read articles are labeled with this symbol.</para> 
+</listitem> 
+<listitem> 
+<para> 
+<inlinemediaobject> 
+<imageobject> 
+<imagedata fileref="greyballchk.png" format="PNG"/> </imageobject>
+</inlinemediaobject> 
+Articles labeled with this symbol are read and the body was fetched
+from the server.</para> 
+</listitem> 
+<listitem> 
+<para> 
+<inlinemediaobject> 
+<imageobject> 
+<imagedata fileref="redball.png" format="PNG"/> </imageobject> 
+</inlinemediaobject> 
+Articles labeled with this symbol are unread and the body has not yet
+been fetched.</para> 
+</listitem> 
+<listitem> 
+<para> 
+<inlinemediaobject> 
+<imageobject> 
+<imagedata fileref="redballchk.png" format="PNG"/> </imageobject> 
+</inlinemediaobject> 
+Articles labeled with this symbol are unread but the body has already
+been already fetched.</para> 
+</listitem> 
+<listitem> 
+<para> 
+<inlinemediaobject> 
+<imageobject> 
+<imagedata fileref="newsubs.png" format="PNG"/> </imageobject> 
+</inlinemediaobject> 
+Articles labeled with this symbol are part of a thread with new and/or 
+unread articles in it.</para> 
+</listitem> 
+<listitem> 
+<para> 
+<inlinemediaobject> 
+<imageobject> 
+<imagedata fileref="eyes.png" format="PNG"/> </imageobject> 
+</inlinemediaobject> 
+Articles labeled with this symbol are parts of a guarded thread. This
+corresponds to a score of 100.</para> 
+</listitem> 
+</itemizedlist> 
+
+<para>Besides different symbols, &knode; is using the following
+highlighting:</para>
+
+<variablelist> 
+<varlistentry> 
+<term>Bold article subjects.</term> 
+<listitem> 
+<para>The article is new in this group; it was fetched during the last
+connection with the server.</para> 
+</listitem> 
+</varlistentry> 
+<varlistentry> 
+<term>Article subjects printed in gray.</term> 
+<listitem> 
+<para>There are no unread follow-up articles.</para> 
+</listitem> 
+</varlistentry> 
+</variablelist> 
+</sect4> 
+
+<sect4> 
+<title>Navigation in the Article View.</title> 
+
+<para>You can navigate in articles, display an article and open or
+close threads with your mouse or keyboard.</para> 
+
+<para>When you select an article with your mouse its entry in the the
+article view gets colored; at the same time the header and body of
+this article appear in in the article window. If you want to read
+another article you can use the mouse to select it, or you can use
+the cursor keys.  If you use the cursor keys you can move the
+dashed frame to the article you want to read and then press
+<keycap>Enter</keycap> to mark and display the article.</para>
+
+<para>There are many key commands to provide comfortable navigation
+within a news group and to switching between newsgroups.  Here the most
+common key commands of the standard key configuration are listed; you
+can configure the key bindings in 
+<menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure
+Shortcuts</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.</para> 
+
+<variablelist> 
+<varlistentry> 
+<term>Toggle Subthreads <keycap>T</keycap> 
+</term> 
+<listitem> 
+<para>The replies to an article are either shown or hidden by
+multiply pressing this key; another way to open threads is
+to use the <keycap>Right Arrow</keycap> key.</para> 
+</listitem> 
+</varlistentry> 
+<varlistentry> 
+<term>Filter <keycap>F6</keycap></term> 
+<listitem> 
+<para>A dialog is shown where you can choose the filter for the
+articles.</para> 
+</listitem> 
+</varlistentry> 
+<varlistentry> 
+<term>Sort <keycap>F7</keycap> 
+</term> 
+<listitem> 
+<para>A dialog is shown where you can change the sorting of the
+articles; if you choose a column for a second time it will change the
+sorting direction.</para> 
+</listitem> 
+</varlistentry> 
+<varlistentry>
+<term>Browsing articles <keycap>Space</keycap></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>This key gives you a convenient possibility for browsing through
+the article view: by pressing this key the article in the article
+window is scrolled; when you reach the end of the article by
+repeatedly pressing <keycap>Space</keycap>, it takes you to the next
+article; when you have read all articles in one newsgroup,
+<keycap>Space</keycap> takes you to the first article of the next
+newsgroup.  By repeatedly pressing <keycap>Space</keycap> you can
+browse through all subscribed newsgroups like this.</para>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+<varlistentry>
+<term>Next unread article <keycombo
+action="simul">&Alt;<keycap>Space</keycap></keycombo>
+</term> 
+<listitem> 
+<para>This key binding jumps to the next unread article. The sequence
+follows the order of articles in the article view; threads are opened
+if necessary.</para>
+</listitem> 
+</varlistentry> 
+<varlistentry>
+<term>Next unread thread <keycombo
+action="simul">&Ctrl;<keycap>Space</keycap></keycombo> 
+</term> 
+<listitem> 
+<para>This command jumps to the next thread containing unread
+articles: the first unread article is then selected and shown. The sequence
+follows the order of articles in the article view.</para> 
+</listitem> 
+</varlistentry> 
+<varlistentry> 
+<term>Next article <keycap>N</keycap> 
+</term> 
+<listitem> 
+<para>This command jumps to the next article; the sequence follows the
+order of articles in the article view. Replies in closed threads are
+ignored.</para> 
+</listitem> 
+</varlistentry> 
+<varlistentry> 
+<term>Previous article <keycap>B</keycap></term> 
+<listitem> 
+<para>This command jumps to the previous article in the group; the
+sequence follows the order of articles in the article view. Replies in
+closed threads are ignored.</para> 
+</listitem> 
+</varlistentry> 
+<varlistentry> 
+<term>Next group <keycap> 
++</keycap> 
+</term> 
+<listitem> 
+<para>This command jumps to the next newsgroup; the sequence follows
+the order of newsgroups in the folder view.</para> 
+</listitem> 
+</varlistentry> 
+<varlistentry> 
+<term>Previous group <keycap>-</keycap> 
+</term> 
+<listitem> 
+<para>This command jumps to the previous newsgroup; the sequence
+follows the order of newsgroups in the folder view.</para> 
+</listitem> 
+</varlistentry> 
+</variablelist> 
+</sect4> 
+
+<sect4> 
+<title>Sorting and Filtering of Articles</title> 
+
+<para>Some newsgroups are very crowded and contain lots of
+articles; perhaps only some of them are interesting to you. One
+possibility to keep track of the news you are interested in is
+to sort your articles with a certain criterion.</para>
+
+<para>Sorting your articles, and choosing sorting criteria, is
+done with the column titles in the article view: clicking on a column
+title makes it the current sorting criterion; another click on the same
+column title changes the order of sorting.</para>
+
+<tip> 
+<para>The current sorting criterion is indicated with an arrow next to
+the title; this gives you an easy sign which column is used for
+sorting, too. You have to make the column wide enough, though, so you
+can actually see the arrow; you can change the column width by moving
+the mouse pointer on the small area between two column titles: the
+pointer changes its appearance to two horizontal arrows; clicking
+and holding the &LMB; mouse button now allows you to change the width
+of the column to the left of the mouse pointer.</para>
+</tip>
+
+<para>&knode; gives you the possibility to reduce the flood of
+articles: you can show only articles fitting specific
+criteria; &knode; uses filters for this task.  In the following paragraphs we
+are just dealing with the predefined filters; for defining and using
+your own filters please refer to the <link
+linkend="using-filters">Defining and using Filters</link> chapter.</para>
+
+<para>Normally you will read most articles only once, and then never
+again. &knode; labels the articles which are unread, but when there
+are more articles in a news group than can be shown by the article
+view you often have to search for unread articles: it would be much
+easier to see only the new fetched and unread articles; &knode; gives
+you this feature by the predefined filters.</para> 
+
+<para>In the status line at the bottom border of your main window
+next to the word <guilabel>Filter</guilabel> the actually-active
+filter is shown: if you do not change the filter configuration this
+is the filter <guilabel>all</guilabel>; this means all articles of a
+newsgroup are shown. <guilabel>all</guilabel> is one of the predefined
+filters; there are eight of them in all, which are described in more detail
+here.</para> 
+
+<variablelist> 
+<varlistentry> 
+<term> 
+<guilabel>All</guilabel> 
+</term> 
+<listitem> 
+<para>This filter is the default setting; it shows all articles in a
+newsgroup. You can choose this filter by selecting 
+<menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guisubmenu>Filter</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>All</guimenuitem></menuchoice></para>
+</listitem> 
+</varlistentry> 
+<varlistentry> 
+<term>Unread</term> 
+<listitem> 
+<para>This filter shows only unread articles; you can choose this
+filter by selecting 
+<menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guisubmenu>Filter</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Unread</guimenuitem></menuchoice></para> 
+</listitem> 
+</varlistentry> 
+<varlistentry> 
+<term> 
+New</term> 
+<listitem> 
+<para>This filter shows only articles fetched during the last
+connection; you can choose this filter by selecting 
+<menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guisubmenu>Filter</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>New</guimenuitem></menuchoice></para> 
+</listitem> 
+</varlistentry> 
+<varlistentry> 
+<term>Watched</term> 
+<listitem> 
+<para>This shows only threads chosen as watched threads by you; you
+may be watching a thread because, for example, you are participating in it,
+or because you are particularly interested in the answers.
+You can choose this filter by selecting 
+<menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guisubmenu>Filter</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Watched</guimenuitem></menuchoice></para> 
+
+<para>This filter only shows something if have you selected one or more
+threads to watch; you can achieve this by selecting 
+<menuchoice><guimenu>Article</guimenu><guisubmenu>Thread</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Watch</guimenuitem></menuchoice>: 
+next to the subject a symbol will appear, showing a pair of eyes.</para>
+
+</listitem> 
+</varlistentry> 
+<varlistentry> 
+<term>Threads With Unread</term> 
+<listitem> 
+<para>This filter shows only threads containing unread articles; you
+can choose this filter by selecting 
+<menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guisubmenu>Filter</guisubmenu>
+<guimenuitem>Threads With Unread</guimenuitem></menuchoice></para>
+
+</listitem> 
+</varlistentry> 
+<varlistentry> 
+<term>Threads With New</term> 
+<listitem> 
+<para>This filter shows only threads with newly-fetched articles; you
+can choose this filter by selecting
+<menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guisubmenu>Filter</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Threads
+With New</guimenuitem></menuchoice></para> 
+</listitem> 
+</varlistentry> 
+<varlistentry> 
+<term>Own articles</term> 
+<listitem> 
+<para>This filter only articles you have published; you can choose
+this filter by selecting
+<menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guisubmenu>Filter</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Own
+Articles</guimenuitem></menuchoice></para> 
+
+</listitem> 
+</varlistentry> 
+<varlistentry> 
+<term>Threads With Own Articles</term> 
+<listitem> 
+<para>This filter only shows threads containing articles you
+have published; you can
+choose this filter by selecting <menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu>
+<guisubmenu>Filter</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Own
+Articles</guimenuitem></menuchoice></para>
+</listitem>
+ 
+</varlistentry> 
+</variablelist> 
+
+<tip> 
+<para>For everyday use the <guilabel>unread</guilabel> filter is
+propably the most useful: it shows all unread articles, including the
+old ones.  The other filters are very task-specific and are seldom used;
+in the end it is a matter of taste which filter to select.</para> 
+</tip> 
+</sect4> 
+</sect3> 
+
+<sect3> 
+<title>The Article Window</title> 
+
+<para>The article window shows the currently-selected article.  You can
+scroll in it like in a normal text editor window; the difference is
+that you cannot change the article &mdash; it is for reading only.</para> 
+
+<para>By pressing the &RMB; in the article viewer you can access the
+important functions in the context menu very quickly.</para> 
+
+<para>The window itself is divided in three areas; they are explained
+in more detail now.</para> 
+
+<sect4> 
+<title>The Header</title> 
+
+<para>This part shows the header lines or a part of the header. You
+will recognize some information here from the article view; for
+example, the subject and the address or name where the article
+originated. When you click on the <guilabel>From:</guilabel> address,
+&knode; opens an editor window where the email address of the author and
+the subject of the referring article are already filled in for
+you; this enables you to reply to the author directly from their
+article.</para> 
+
+<para>The appearance and content of the header shown by default
+can be configured by choosing <menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configuring
+KNode...</guimenuitem><guilabel>Reading
+News</guilabel><guilabel>Headers</guilabel></menuchoice>; you can
+find a more-detailed view on this in <link
+linkend="anc-knode-headers">Configuring the Shown
+Headers</link>.</para> 
+
+<para>By selecting
+<menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guimenuitem>Show all
+headers</guimenuitem></menuchoice> you force &knode; to show the whole
+header as is produced by the newsreader and newsservers; normally
+you do not need this view: it needs a lot of space in the article
+window.</para>
+
+<para>The last lines of the header contain, if necessary, some
+references to other articles, shown as numbers in the range from 1 to
+n. These References are the articles to which the current article refers:
+the article labeled with 1 is the oldest article to which this article
+refers; the article with the highest number is the most-recent article
+to which the current article refers.</para>
+
+<para>When you click on a reference the corresponding article is loaded
+and shown in the article view; if the article is no longer available
+you will be informed by &knode;.  This will happen if
+the article has been deleted by the article management of &knode; due to
+its age, or your news server decided to delete it from the newsgroup;
+for details on how to get such an article, please refer to the 
+<link linkend="faq">Frequently Asked Questions</link>.</para> 
+
+<tip> 
+<para>The first lines in an article, with the subject and author
+information and so on, are called
+<glossterm>headers</glossterm>.</para> 
+</tip> 
+</sect4> 
+
+<sect4> 
+<title>The Body of the Article</title> 
+
+<para>The body of the article follows straight after the header; it
+is the actual message the author published in the newsgroup. Be aware
+that some articles may contain quotes from other articles which are
+not recognizable as quotes; this depends on the news editor the author
+used and their article-formatting habits.</para> 
+
+<para>&knode; provides some formatting which can be used by articles;
+at the moment the available options are:</para>
+
+<simplelist>
+<member>/italic/</member> 
+<member>*bold*</member> 
+<member>_underlined_</member> 
+</simplelist> 
+
+<para>Do not use the highlighting too often; the impact decreases
+the more it is used.</para> 
+
+<tip> 
+<para>The main part of the message (the contents) is called the
+<glossterm>body</glossterm>.</para> 
+</tip> 
+
+<para>Most of the time a quote is indicated by a prefixed &gt; on
+every line; however, there are other possible signs. If you can not directly
+recognize a quote the author did not obey the rules of proper
+quoting.</para> 
+
+<para>Also, it is usual to start an answer with a
+introductionary line, something like:</para>
+
+<informalexample> 
+<para>On 12/25/2000 Santa Claus wrote:</para> 
+</informalexample> 
+
+<tip> 
+<para>Normally you do not have to concern yourself with these introductionary
+lines: &knode; does this automatically when you reply to an
+article; to find out how to customize this line see 
+<link linkend="knode-composer-settings">The Composer Settings</link>
+documentation.
+</para> 
+</tip> 
+
+<para>In <menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure
+KNode...</guimenuitem><guilabel>Reading
+News</guilabel><guilabel>Appearance</guilabel></menuchoice> you can
+choose how the articles are shown. In particular, &knode; provides the
+smart coloring of different reply levels; you can read more about this
+in the chapter <link linkend="knode-appearance">Configuring the
+appearance</link>.</para> 
+
+<caution> 
+<para>&knode; only supports the coloring of quotes if the quoting
+lines starts with special characters; you can configure these
+characters at
+<menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure
+KNode...</guimenuitem><guilabel>Reading
+News</guilabel><guilabel>Viewer</guilabel></menuchoice>.</para>
+</caution> 
+
+<para>When the body of an article contains links to internet addresses
+you can invoke an internet browser to display the web page it links to
+by clicking on the link; details about configuring this feature can be
+found in <link linkend="setting-news-general">General news
+settings</link>.</para>
+
+</sect4> 
+
+<sect4> 
+<title>The Signature</title> 
+
+<para>Below the main text of an article you can find the signature of the
+author, provided you did not disable signatures in
+<menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure
+KNode...</guimenuitem><guilabel>Reading
+News</guilabel><guilabel>General</guilabel></menuchoice>.  The
+signature is divided from the text by thin horizontal line.</para> 
+</sect4> 
+
+
+<sect4>
+<title>Attachments and Multipart <acronym>MIME</acronym>
+messages</title> 
+
+<para>If an article contains attachments they are shown below the
+signature in a table.</para> 
+
+<para>The multipart <acronym>MIME</acronym> format allows the body of
+an article to be sent in more than one format; for example, in plain-text
+and in <acronym>HTML</acronym>. It depends on the newsreader which format
+is used for reading the article.</para> 
+
+<para>&knode; allows the different formats to be shown by selecting
+<menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure
+KNode...</guimenuitem><guilabel>Reading
+News</guilabel><guilabel>Viewer</guilabel><guilabel>Show alternative
+contents as attachments</guilabel></menuchoice>; when this option is
+checked all alternative formats are shown as attachments and can be
+opened and viewed.</para> 
+
+<para>If this option is unchecked you will not be shown the different text
+formats and &knode; decides which one should be shown.</para>
+
+</sect4> 
+</sect3> 
+</sect2> 
+
+<sect2 id="post-and-mail-news"> 
+<title>Writing and Replying to Articles</title> 
+
+<para>Before you start writing articles or replying to other Usenet
+users be sure you understand the habits of the current
+newsgroup; again, reading <link linkend="knode-journey">A Journey
+Through Usenet</link> would be a good idea.</para>
+
+<para>For testing the settings of &knode; please resist sending an
+article to a random newsgroup; it is not very friendly to bother
+people with test articles: what if you are subscribed to a newsgroup
+and half of its articles only contain the word
+<quote>test</quote>?  It is like somebody calling you just to
+testing their phone.</para> 
+
+<para>This is the reason for the special groups having
+<quote>test</quote> in their name; for example, 
+<emphasis>alt.test</emphasis>. In these groups you can test everything
+you want without bothering anybody; some groups even send you error
+messages back.</para> 
+
+<para>Here you can easily identify obvious mistakes, like a missing or
+a wrong e-mail address or a wrongly-configured charset which doesn't
+show all special characters.</para> 
+
+<para>You can find a selection of test groups in <link
+linkend="infos-testgroups">Test Groups</link>.</para> 
+
+<para>Subscribe to one of the test groups now; some news servers have
+their own test groups, which are probably less crowded.</para>
+ 
+<tip> 
+<para>Remember, you have to download the articles of the new
+subscribed group; this may take some time if there are many articles
+in the group. The only
+important articles are yours and the answers by the check handler; if
+you want to reduce the number of articles fetched during the test you
+can configure this in
+<menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guilabel>Configure
+KNode...</guilabel><guilabel>Reading
+News</guilabel><guilabel>General</guilabel><guilabel>Maximal number of
+articles to fetch</guilabel></menuchoice>: if you reduce this
+dramatically, you should not wait too long to fetch the new
+articles after sending your test article; however, if it set too low
+your article might not be fetched.  A tolerably-fast news server should
+provide your article right after you sent it; you might, however, have to
+wait a while, at worst 1 or 2 days.  Feel free to send another article
+if cannot see your initial one; this is what the test groups are
+for.</para> 
+</tip> 
+
+<caution>
+<para>When you are using a local news server the configuration of
+<guilabel>Maximal number of articles to fetch</guilabel> in &knode; is
+probably unnecessary; you should consult the documentation of your
+news server instead.</para> 
+</caution>
+
+<para>If you did not encounter any errors unsubscribe from the
+test groups and set <guilabel>Maximum number of articles to
+fetch</guilabel> back to normal (1000).</para> 
+
+<sect3> 
+<title>Publishing Articles</title> 
+
+<para>You have seen most of &knode; now, but have only used it
+passively so far, so let's publish a test
+article now. Select the new subscribed test group in the folder
+view; then, with <menuchoice><guimenu>Article</guimenu><guimenuitem>Post to
+newsgroup...</guimenuitem></menuchoice>or the key <keycap>P</keycap>,
+the Editor will be opened.</para> 
+
+<para>You can use the &knode; Editor like a normal Texteditor; there
+are some additional features for writing news articles though.</para> 
+
+<para>In the editor window there are two input lines: one 
+for the subject, which is empty at the moment; and another for the
+newsgroups this article is going to be posted to.</para> 
+
+<para>Enter the text <userinput>This is a test</userinput> in the
+subject field.</para> 
+
+<tip> 
+<para>Normally, when you post an article, use a descriptive subject. Articles
+without a descriptive subject are often ignored. Avoid subjects like
+<quote>Help, it doesn't work !!!!!</quote> This subject gives no
+information about the content of your article.</para> 
+</tip> 
+
+<para>The <guilabel>Groups:</guilabel> field already contains the test
+newsgroup you selected before; do not change this.</para> 
+
+<para>Below the input field for the <glossterm>newsgroup</glossterm>
+there is another inactive option field: this function is explained
+later in the chapter <link linkend="knode-editor-advanced">The
+editor</link>; for now it is irrelevant.</para> 
+
+<para>For simplicity reasons we will only use a simple
+sentence; type:</para>
+ 
+<screen> 
+<userinput>This is the body of my test article. @ $ %</userinput> 
+</screen> 
+
+<para>Then, enter an empty line, followed by:</para>
+ 
+<screen> 
+<userinput>Did it work?</userinput> 
+</screen> 
+
+<para>This may look funny to you, but it does what it is supposed to
+do &mdash; test your configuration..</para> 
+
+<para>Your article should now look like the screenshot below:</para> 
+
+<screenshot> 
+<screeninfo>Your first article</screeninfo> 
+<mediaobject> 
+<imageobject> 
+<imagedata fileref="knode-new-article.png" format="PNG"/> </imageobject> 
+<textobject> 
+<phrase>Your first article</phrase> 
+</textobject> 
+<caption> 
+<para>Your first article</para> 
+</caption> 
+</mediaobject> 
+</screenshot> 
+
+<para>If you are using &knode; with a local newsserver choose
+<menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Send
+Now</guimenuitem></menuchoice> in the Editor; if you do not have a
+connection to a newsserver at this point, you may want to send the
+article later &mdash; you can achieve this by using
+<menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Send
+Later</guimenuitem></menuchoice> &mdash; &knode; then stores this article
+in the folder <guilabel>Outbox</guilabel>. You can start sending the
+articles in the <guilabel>Outbox</guilabel> manually by selecting
+<menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Send pending
+messages</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.</para> 
+
+<para>After sending the article you will notice &knode; stores a copy
+in the <guilabel>Sent</guilabel> folder.</para> 
+
+<para>Depending on how fast your article is published in the according
+newsgroup you can check the result after some time: mostly it is
+sufficient to check for new messages immediately after sending the
+article; be patient, though, it <emphasis>may</emphasis> take the article some
+hours before reaching the newsgroup.  If the article does not arrive
+after a number of hours it is likely that something went wrong: try again; then,
+if it is still not working, have a look at the <link
+linkend="faq">Frequently Asked Questions</link>.</para> 
+
+<important> 
+<para>Even when you are using a local news server, you have to check
+for new articles: the local news server just sends the article, it does
+not store it in the local newsgroup, so you have to synchronize with
+an external news server if you want to see if your test article
+has arrived.</para> 
+</important> 
+
+<para>If the <glossterm>article</glossterm> appears in the newsgroup
+you are successful; now you should check if there is the correct
+sender and if the article is readable. Have a look on your
+language-specific characters like the German umlauts; if they are not
+readable you have to change the coding at
+<menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure
+KNode...</guimenuitem><guilabel>Posting
+News</guilabel><guilabel>Technical</guilabel></menuchoice>to
+<guilabel>Allow 8-bit</guilabel>. Change this and repeat your
+test.</para> 
+
+<para>If everything is right you have successfully published your first
+article in usenet with &knode;.</para> 
+
+</sect3> 
+
+<sect3> 
+<title>Post Reply</title> 
+
+<para>After successfully publishing an article we will now answer to
+your own article. You want to answer the question you asked, don't
+you?</para> 
+
+<para>Select your article in the article view and press the &RMB;: a
+context menu will appear; choose <guimenuitem>Followup to
+newsgroup</guimenuitem>.</para> 
+
+<para>&knode; opens the Editor again, but this time there is already a
+subject filled in for you. The subject line reads:</para>
+ 
+<screen> 
+<computeroutput>Re: This is a test</computeroutput> 
+</screen> 
+
+<para><emphasis>Re:</emphasis> is a shortcut for the Latin <quote>In
+re</quote>, which translates to something along the lines of <quote>relating
+to</quote>. You should not change the subject and, above all, the
+<emphasis>Re:</emphasis>: most newsreaders sort threads by the
+subject.</para> 
+
+<tip> 
+<para>If you want to change the subject for some reason put the new
+subject in front of the old and replace the Re: with a parenthesized
+(Was: ... ); in our example this would look like </para>
+
+<informalexample> 
+<para>A new subject! (Was: This is a test)</para> 
+</informalexample> 
+
+<para>With this kind of subject you show the other readers there is a
+branch in the original discussion; this happens, for example,
+when a new topic occurs in the original discussion or the original
+subject has changed for some reason.</para> 
+
+<para>If you answer to an article with such a subject, delete the
+parenthesized part of the subject; the first part with a prefixed
+<emphasis>Re:</emphasis> remains.</para>
+
+<informalexample>
+<para>Re: A new subject!</para>
+</informalexample> 
+</tip> 
+
+<para>Let us have look at the Editor now. The contents of the article
+to which we want to reply has already been copied to the Editor by &knode;;
+to indicate the text is a quote every line is prefixed with a
+<emphasis>&gt;</emphasis>.</para> 
+
+<para>In front of the quoted text &knode; has put an introduction
+line: the content of this line refers to the original author; you can
+change the standard text of this line in
+<menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure
+KNode...</guimenuitem><guilabel>Posting
+News</guilabel><guilabel>Composer</guilabel><guilabel>Introduction
+Phrase:</guilabel></menuchoice>.</para> 
+
+<para>The original article contains the question: <emphasis>Did it
+work?</emphasis> We want to answer this question now.</para>
+
+<para>Place the cursor below the quoted question and write in the next
+line:</para>
+ 
+<screen> 
+<userinput>Yes it worked, congratulations!</userinput> 
+</screen> 
+
+<para>We are not finished yet: it is considered polite to begin with
+a greeting like <quote>Hello</quote> in the first line; whether you call the
+author by their name or not depends on your habits, watch the
+newsgroup to get used to the habits there.</para> 
+
+<para>Next we delete all non-mandatory parts of the quoted article; in
+our case, we delete all parts except the question.</para> 
+
+<para>With such a short text this is unnecessary, but this just an
+example: if you have to read a message 100 lines long again just to
+find an <citation>I agree</citation> at the end you will
+understand.... Aside from this, it makes articles smaller so they use
+less space on the server.</para> 
+
+<para>At the end we say good bye.</para> 
+
+<para>This screenshot shows our answer before sending it.</para>
+
+<screenshot> 
+<screeninfo>Your answer to your article</screeninfo> 
+<mediaobject> 
+<imageobject> 
+<imagedata fileref="knode-followup.png" format="PNG"/> </imageobject> 
+<textobject> 
+<phrase>Your answer to your article</phrase> 
+</textobject> 
+<caption> 
+<para>Your answer to your article</para> 
+</caption> 
+</mediaobject> 
+</screenshot> 
+
+<tip> 
+<para>You can find a good guide for correct quoting at <ulink
+url="http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren">http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren</ulink>
+(German).</para> 
+</tip> 
+
+<para>Now we still need to post our reply; like posting the original message
+choose <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Send
+now</guimenuitem></menuchoice> or the alternative
+<menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Send
+later</guimenuitem></menuchoice>, if you're not online at the moment
+and you're not using a local newsserver.  If everything works
+you will see your article in the newsgroup after a while; easy, isn't
+it?</para>
+ 
+<tip> 
+<para>Using the <guimenu>Options</guimenu> menu you can configure whether
+you want to send an email, a news article or both.</para>
+</tip> 
+</sect3> 
+
+<sect3> 
+<title>Mail Reply</title> 
+
+<para>The Mail Reply follows the same lines as posting a reply in a
+newsgroup; the only difference is that a mail reply is sent directly
+to the author and does not appear in any newsgroup.</para> 
+
+<para>Sometimes it is better to use an emailed reply instead of
+posting a reply to newsgroup; they are used primarily for when you
+want to correct an error or misconduct by the author, without hurting
+their feelings by doing so publicly on the newsgroup.</para> 
+
+<para>To answer with an e-mail select your article; again,
+open the context menu with the right mouse button; and choose
+<guimenuitem>Reply by Email</guimenuitem>: &knode; opens the Composer
+with the quoted article.</para> 
+
+<para>Subject and body are identical as when posting an article but
+the <guilabel>Groups:</guilabel> field is replaced by a
+<guilabel>To:</guilabel> field; here the author's email address
+appears. In our example this should be your own email address, if
+&knode; is set up correctly.</para> 
+
+<para>For emails the same rules for quoting and politeness apply
+as for posting an article in a newsgroup.</para> 
+
+<para>After finishing your Reply, you can send it.</para> 
+
+<para>The screenshot below shows the reply we distributed by email.</para> 
+
+<screenshot> 
+<screeninfo>A Mail Reply</screeninfo> 
+<mediaobject> 
+<imageobject> 
+<imagedata fileref="knode-reply.png" format="PNG"/> </imageobject> 
+<textobject> 
+<phrase>A Mail Reply</phrase> 
+</textobject> 
+<caption> 
+<para>A Mail Reply</para> 
+</caption>
+</mediaobject>
+</screenshot>
+
+<important>
+<para>The Mail Reply only works if you have used the correct settings in
+<menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure
+KNode...</guimenuitem><guilabel>Accounts</guilabel><guilabel>Mail</guilabel></menuchoice>.</para>
+ 
+<para>Depending on the configuration of your computer, you will find
+the reply in your mailbox; you might have to connect to your
+<acronym>ISP</acronym> and fetch your new mail first though.</para>
+</important> 
+
+<tip> 
+<para>On the <guimenu>Options</guimenu> menu you can configure whether
+you want to send an email, a news article or both.</para> 
+</tip> 
+</sect3> 
+</sect2>
+</sect1> 
+