Reading news messages
Searching for a news message
Sorting news messages
Printing news messages
Decoding news messages
Saving file enclosures
Viewing file enclosures by using helpers
Saving news messages for later reading
Changing the number of messages to download

To read news messages

1. If the newsgroup window is not open, choose Newsgroups from the Windows menu.
2. In the newsgroup window, select the newsgroup that you want to read.
3. From the News menu, choose Go To Newsgroup. A status window appears, showing the number of articles downloading.
4. In the Subject list, click the article you want to read.
5. Read the text of the article in the preview pane under the subject list.

Tips

• To open the message in a separate window, double-click the message.
• Messages that are a part of a series of responses to an original message are gathered together and stored with the original message. To see the replies to a message, click the triangle to the left of the original message.
• To search for the newsgroup you want to read, type a word from the newsgroup title in the Display Newsgroups Containing box.
• To search for the article you want to read, type a word from the message subject in the Display Subjects Containing box.
• To sort the news messages, click the column titles in the News window .

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Changing the number of messages to download
Searching for a newsgroup
Searching for a news message
Sorting news messages

To search for a news message

1. In the Newsgroup window, find a newsgroup you want to read, and double-click it to see the articles.
2. In the Display Subjects Containing box above the message list, type the word(s) that are contained in the subject of the message you are looking for. As you type, only the subjects that match what you have typed will be visible.
3. To show the entire list of messages again, delete the text in the Display Subjects Containing box.

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Sorting news messages

To sort news messages

1. In the Newsgroup window, find a newsgroup you want to read, and double-click it to see the articles.
2. Click the column heading you want to sort by.

Tips

• To change the sort order, click the column heading you want to sort by. A triangle appears, representing the current sort order. To switch between ascending and descending sort order, click the column heading again.
• You can change which columns are displayed by pointing to Columns on the Edit menu, and then checking and clearing columns as needed.

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Resizing the windows and columns

To print news messages

1. Double-click the news message you want to print.
2. From the File menu, choose Print.
3. Change settings as needed.
4. Click Print.

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To decode news messages

1. Double-click the news message you want to decode.
2. From the Message window, choose Unscramble (ROT13).

Tip

• ROT13 is an encryption method that rotates the characters in a word 13 letters to the right in the alphabet. This makes it look like jibberish until it is decrypted and the characters are rotated back 13 characters.
• News message are encoded to prevent you for "accidentally" reading something that you would not have chosen to read. For example, reviews or discussions of movies that involve revealing the plot and ending are often encoded so that people who have not seen the movie will not have it spoiled for them.
• Mail messages can also be encoded using ROT13.

To save file enclosures

1. Select the news message that contains the enclosure you want to download.
2. From the News menu, choose Extract Binaries.
3. Select a location for the file.
4. Click Open.
5. In the information message, click OK.

Tips

• To quickly download multiple enclosures, shift-select the messages that contain them, and then choose Extract Binaries from the News menu.
• If a file that you receive from the Internet is compressed and encoded (for example, Example.sit.hqx), Internet Mail and News will unencode it for you, but you will need to have a program, such as Stuffit, to uncompress it.

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Viewing file enclosures by using helpers

To view file enclosures by using helpers

1. From the Edit menu, choose Preferences.
2. Click Messages.
3. Make sure that Use Helper Application To View Received Enclosures is selected.
4. Click OK.
5. Select the news message that contains the enclosure you want to download.
6. From the News menu, choose Extract Binaries.

Tips

• You will need to assign a helper in Internet Config for the file type you are downloading.
• If you do not have View Enclosures Using Helper Applications selected in Preferences, hold down the Option key and click it.

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Saving file enclosures

To save news messages for later reading

1. Select the news message that you want to download and save.
2. On the Message menu, point to Move Message To, and choose a folder from the pop-up menu.

Tips

• Any enclosures the news message has will also be saved.
• You can also drag the message to a folder to save it.

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Saving file enclosures

To change the number of messages to download

1. From the Edit menu, choose Preferences.
2. Click Display.
3. In the Newsgroups area, type the number of news messages you want to download at one time in the Download Message Subjects At A Time box.
4. Click OK.

Tip

• After the specific number of news messages have been downloaded, choose Get Next 500 Subjects to see the next group of news messages. (The number depends on what is specified in Preferences; the default value is 500.)

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