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YET ANOTHER NEWSWATCHER 2.3.1 READ ME Please read all of this document thoroughly before trying to run Yet Another NewsWatcher for the first time. You should also have read and be familiar with the user guide for the original NewsWatcher program by John Norstad. More detailed information on various YA-NewsWatcher features is discussed in the user guides “YA-NW and Binary Posting”, “YA-NW and Filtering”, “YA-NW and Sorting/Threading”, “YA-NW and Character Sets”, “YA-NW Files and Folders”, “YA-NW and Anonymity”, and “YA-NW and Scripting”. You can now register YA-NewsWatcher. Please see the “Registering YA-NW” folder that came with the program distribution archive for details and the Register application. By registering the program you help to ensure that it will continue to be developed and supported. Yet Another NewsWatcher is a Usenet newsreader application for Macintosh featuring binary and anonymous remailer posting, article filtering (kill files), and article sorting. Please see “Program Information” below for who to blame for what. WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION • NewsWatcher: a fat binary version of Yet Another NewsWatcher • a number of text files that document the various features that YA-NewsWatcher adds to original NewsWatcher. It does not contain the original NewsWatcher user document, which you should obtain and read carefully. • some sample AppleScripts that can be modified to permit YA-NewsWatcher to use MacPGP to sign messages, check PGP signatures on articles, etc. You may also need to obtain one or more of the following helper or applications: • YA-NW Filter Converter: a application for converting VA-NewsWatcher or YA-NewsWatcher filter (kill) files to the new format used by YA-NW 2.0.4 and later • YA-Base64: a helper application for decoding MIME Base64 encoded as well as uuencoded attachments. This is the preferred uudecode and Base64 decode helper application. • YA-NW Filter to TEXT: a utility application for converting YA-NewsWatcher filter files to plain text files that can be edited with a text editor. • YA-NW TEXT to Filter : a utility application for reconverting a plain text file back to a YA-NewsWatcher filter file. If you are running YA-NewsWatcher after having previously used the original NewsWatcher, when the program starts you will receive an error message about preferences being not found, damaged, or invalid. This is normal. These are the preferences that YA-NewsWatcher adds for the extra features it offers. IMPORTANT YA-NewsWatcher has been proven to be a stable program that runs well and reliably on most peoples' Macs. If you encounter problems, here are some things to try/look out for: • Set a reasonable preferred memory size for the application. The default size seems to work -1- for many people with full group lists up to about 16000 or so. Increasing the memory to 2560 kB may help for very large full group lists for normal day-to-day use. Plea…