Labels:text | screenshot | font | book | menu | document OCR: Read messages 1p Online Command short-cuts: (-) Prev Reply (+) Next Reply (Q) Quit Replies (D) Page Down (U) Page Up (P) Prev Msg (C) Cont inous (M) Mark Msg (N) Next Msg (S) Stop Read (A) Page Again (H) Help (J) Jump Msg (T) Toggle Ptr (G) Goto Area (R) Reply To (W) Write New (/) Find Msg (K) Keep Unread (#) Delete (=) Priv/Public (F) Forward (E) Edit Msg Follow reply chain commands: (-) Prev Reply (+) Next Reply Move to the previous reply in this reply chain. (Q) Quit Replies Move to the next reply in this reply chain. Quit reading replies and return to the original message. Read inside message commands: (D) Page Down Move to the previous page in this message, or if the (U) Page Up first, move to the previous message in the current area. Move to the next page in this message, or if the last, C) Continous move to the next message in the current area. Do not divide messages into pages, instead show each of them in one piece without "more" prompts. Useful to (A) Page Again Save a message in a capture file. Show the current page again, thus redrawing the screen. Read outside message commands: (P) Prev Msg Move to the previous message in the current area. (N) Next Msg (S) Stop Read Move to the next message in the current area. (J) Jump Msg Stop reading messages. Jump to a certain message in the current area. You will be prompted for the number of the message to (T) Toggle Ptr which you want to jump. Set last read pointer to the current message in the current area. Other commands: (H) Help Show this help. (M) Mark Msg Mark (tag) the current message for later processing. (G) Goto Area Jump to the next area with new messages in your (R) Reply To combined message areas. Enter your own reply to the current message. By default, the message subject, the message attributes and the message area will be keeped as they were. You may choose to select them by pressing N (No) in the question "Do you want to keep the original reply information? (Yes/No/Abort)". The original message (W) Write New will be automatically quoted to your message editor. Write new message to the current message area. You will be prompted for the message subject and to whom (/) Find Msg the message is addressed ("All" is for everyone). You can search for a certain string in the message text or header which consists of sender's and receiver's names and the message sub ject. Keep Unread (#) Delete Keep the current personal mail in your mailbox. Delete the current message. You can delete messages only if you are the sender or the recipient of the (=) Priv/Public current message. Toggle message's private-public status. Messages with private status can be seen only by the sender, the recipient and the system operator. You may also password protect the current message, when it will encrypted with the password and cannot be read without it, not even by the system operator (this (F) Forward option may be disabled for system security reasons). Forward this message to another recipient or to (E) Edit Msg another message area. Edit current message information. You can do this only for restricted time (current call, 24h or similar), thus disabling possibilities to "falsify" the truth. Glossary: Reply chain A reply chain consists of one or several replies to the original message, each of which may contain sub reply chains, thus making the chain look more like a tree. --- > Reply 1 Original message ---- > Reply 1 > First reply to reply 1 > Second reply to reply 1 ... Reply 2 More prompt Something that gives you some time to react somehow to what has happened on the screen during the last few moments. Capture file Nice option in your terminal program to save incoming text in a text file for any future (mis)use or just to fill your disk space. Sub ject The subject is something that message is all about. Sometimes it may be difficult to squeeze a long message into one line, but it's essential to help others to notice your message and what it contains. Everybody doesn't have time to read every possible message in every possible message area, so make it short and give some reason to read yours. Sender Person who probably sent the message, or his/her alias or nick name. Recipient Person to whom the message was addressed to. All means simply everybody and is usually used in a new message to invoke a new lifetime reply chain. Combined areas You can pick up some message areas that you are willing to follow regularly from the area list. You can easily read new messages on these areas with one read command and you don't need to jump to each area every time you want to check if there are any new messages found to read. Last read ptrs This software will automatically keep track of your last read pointers. This way you can easily select "read new messages" command every time and only those messages that have been written since your last logon will be displayed. Otherwise you would always have to first search the place where you were last time and then continue from there; now this is all handled automatically for you. Ma i 1 box Where all your new unread personal mail is stored. These are usually much harder to bomb down during the New Year's Eve than the virtual ones. Security Even with the safest security settings, nothing can be concerned as fool proof. Even if you encrypt a private message with a password, so that only the recipient (and not the sysop or anyone else) could be able to read it, it is still possible that the information in your message can be read by other people. Maybe the Sysop was around while you were writing the message or the recipient was reading it (after first decrypting it) or maybe someone was able to hack your password or .. If you really have something private for somebody .. Well, phonecalls can be tapped, letters can be read by postmen, meetings can be spied, etc. Trust no one! The same affects also vice versa. What you see is not necessarily what you get. Perhaps somebody was using somebody else's name or the message had been edited afterwards or ... Doubt first, not swallow.
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