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- Message Menu Help
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- A - Area Change
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- Allows you to select a different message conference.
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- G - Good-Bye
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- When you want to log of the board, use this command. DO NOT DROP
- CARRIER OR YOUR ACCESS WILL BE LOWERED.
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- L - List Message Headers
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- This command allows you to quickly browse through messages, showing
- only the subject, who wrote it, and who it was sent to.
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- N - Next Message
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- This command will allow you to read the next available message in the
- current area. You may also press RETURN to do exactly the same thing.
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- = - Continuous Read
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- Displays messages non-stop starting at a specified message number.
- Useful if you just wish to capture messages for offline reading.
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- W - Write Message
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- This command allows you to post messages to other users on the system.
- When you select this command, you will be first prompted who you want
- to send the message to. If you do not wish to address the message to one
- particular person, enter 'ALL'. You will then be asked if for the
- subject, this should just be one or two words describing what the message
- is about. Note, all echomail is public mail, and all Netmail is
- privileged mail.
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- F - Forward Message
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- Allows you to take a current message and send a copy of it to another
- user, and even in another message area.
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- Q - Quit to Main Menu
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- This takes you back to the Main Menu of the BBS.
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- V - View a Message
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- This allows you to read one specific message without altering your last
- read pointer.
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- J - Jump to Message
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- This reads a specfic message and alters your last read pointer
- accordingly.
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- R - Read Mode
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- Allows you to select either regular, personal, or marked reading mode.
- Regular, all available messages are displayed to you when you go to
- read messages. In personal mode, only those address TO you will be
- shown. And in marked mode, only messages that have been marked will
- be displayed. Note that messages found during a check for messages to
- you are automatically marked.
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- O - Mask Out Conference
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- If you don't wish to participate in the current conference, you may
- mask it out, and it will be completely hidden to you unless you try to
- enter it again.
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- S - Scan Message Headers
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- Allows you to search the messages in the current conference for a text
- string in the To:, From: and Subject: fields. If you wish, you can
- have found messages marked for easy retrieval.
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