  Private Messages:
  =================
  ^nodename supports completely private messages between you and other users
via the Mail> room.  This Mail is visible only to the sender and the recipient(s)
under normal circumstances, although the Sysop can access users' Mail under
extreme circumstances.  Mail> is mostly like any other room on the system:
if you have new messages in Mail, <G>oto will take you to it; .Goto Mail will
also take you to the Mail> room.

  Mail> is different in intuitive ways.  When you enter messages, you'll be
asked for a recipient, and the name you enter will be checked to make sure they
exist here.  If you wish
to send Mail to more than one person at a time (because of shared interests
or whatever), you may add additional Recipients for the Mail via the <W>ho
else command, at the "entry cmd: " prompt.  You'll be asked for the names
of the persons you wish to receive copies of this Mail message; each will be
validated.  When you save the message, the Mail> will be delivered to each
person's account in their Mail> room.

  When you're reading New messages in Mail, after each message you will be
asked if you wish to Respond to the User in question.  You may either
answer:

 Yes  -- you will be put into message entry, with the name of the user to reply
to in place.  Makes answering Mail a breeze.
 No   -- next New message is displayed.
 Skip -- you wish to mark this message as Skipped.  When you leave any other
rooms, the system assumes you've read all the messages.  But in Mail>, Skipping
a message will mark that message as unread by you.  You may leave Mail> using
Goto, but the Mail you've so marked remains New until next time you read New
(unless you Skip it again).  This lets you leave some Mail as Skipped until
you have time to answer it, while answering other Mail right away.

  The Pause-Enter feature of other rooms (which lets you enter a message while
reading other messages by typing <P>ause and then <E>nter) does not work the
same in the Mail> room.  Instead, when you use Pause-Enter, ^variantname will
try to find the message to which the current message is a reply.  So, if you
are reading new in Mail> and are wondering what caused the current message
to be written to you, just Pause-Enter it and the system will try hard to
figure it out.

 General complaints, comments and requests should be addressed to "Sysop".


 %COMMANDS Back to the commands help menu.
 %HELPOPT Get a list of all help files in the system.
 %MAINHELP First level of help system.

