News Watcher Manual

NewsWatcher 2.2.2 February 27, 1998 John Norstad Academic Technologies Northwestern University j-norstad@nwu.edu NewsWatcher 2.2.2 Table of Contents Preface......................................................................................................4 Usenet Organization and Etiquette............................................................7 Introduction to Usenet ........................................................................7 Netiquette............................................................................................10 Spaf’s Words of Wisdom..................................................................13 Getting Started..........................................................................................14 Installing and Configuring NewsWatcher...........................................14 Creating Your User Group List...........................................................18 Reading the News...............................................................................19 Reading Old Articles...........................................................................22 Keyboard and Keypad Shortcuts........................................................23 Replying to Articles ............................................................................25 Posting New Articles ..........................................................................27 Working with Lists.............................................................................28 Working with Text..............................................................................29 Getting Help .......................................................................................31 Saving Files ..............................................................................................32 Saving User Group Lists ....................................................................32 Saving Articles....................................................................................33 Saving Messages ................................................................................36 Finding and Searching..............................................................................38 Finding Information in Windows .......................................................38 Searching for Articles on the Server....................................................40 Opening URLs .........................................................................................41 Introduction to Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)..........................41 Opening Referenced Articles and Groups...........................................45 Opening E…