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…

Macintosh HD:"""""MacFormat:ya-nw-231:Docs:YA-NW Readme Page 4 of 4 Saved: Sunday, September 22, 1996 2:00:11 PM the topmost user group list window will be automatically open after startup. 32) Added the Export command to the File menu. This writes the contents of a group or subject list window to a tab-delimited text file. The file creator and default save-to folder are the same as for saving article files. Note that, in general, the data written to the file is slightly different from that displayed in the window. Group lists will always have four columns of data: the low message number (never shown in the window), the high message number (ditto), the unread count (only shown in user group windows), and the group name. For user group windows, none of the columns will be empty. Other group list windows, such as the full group list, the columns other than the group name column will be empty. The same format is used for all types of group windows to make comparisons and automated processing easier. For subject windows, all the available article information will be listed, even if it's not shown in the window (because, for example, "Use XOVER" is enabled but "Show lines" is disabled). However, some information (the number of articles in a thread, for example) is not written to the file. Again, the format will be the same for all subject windows, with empty columns used for unavailable data. For both kinds of lists, the order of the items in the export file is the same as that shown in thw window. Also, for subject windows, the exported file will only show the first article in a thread unless that thread is expanded. 33) Added support for decoding MIME encoded (per RFC 1522) headers. Headers encoded according to RFC 1522 are now always decoded in article windows, and optionally decoded in subject windows. For the latter there's a new preference to enable or disable decoding of MIME headers (since decoding takes time and may therefore cause subject windows to open more slowly). This option has also been added to the Subject Options in the Newsgroup Settings dialog, so MIME header decoding can be enabled or disabled on a newsgroup-by-newsgroup basis. 34) Added support for Frontier Menu Sharing. *-*-*-* Special thanks to John Norstad for all his hard work on original NewsWatcher. YA-NewsWatcher would not be possible without the complete and sturdy foundation offered by original NewsWatcher. Brian Clark Macintosh HD:"""""MacFormat:ya-nw-231:Docs:YA-NW Readme Page 3 of 4 Saved: Sunday, September 22, 1996 2:00:11 PM information on this subject. 15) Improved marking as read of cross-posted articles. In original NewsWatcher, only articles that were opened had any cross-posts also marked as read. Now this also occurs when an article is saved to a file (including …