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Instructions
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Table of Contents
- Quick Overview
- General Information
- Becoming a Member
- Reading Messages
- Adding a Message
- Submitting your Message
- Administration of Messages
- Subscribe, Unsubscribe, and Notification
Quick Overview
HyperNews, a software package written by Daniel LaLiberte, selectively
combines World-Wide Web (WWW) and NetNews functionality to support conferencing
on the WWW. Readers can add responses to existing base articles and/or
other responses. Base articles provide moderated organization of information,
while response trees support unmoderated discussion about that information.
Additional general information about HyperNews is also available.
Becoming
a Member
When you become a "member" of a HyperNews site, you will be given certain
rights; these rights vary depending on how the site is configured. Although
you are not required to become a member in order to write messages, you
will probably want to become a member if you visit this site regularly.
You can become a member of this HyperNews site now, or at a later time
by selecting the "Members" button
found near the bottom of each discussion area.
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Reading Messages
You do not have to be a member to read messages posted to the discussion
topics.
A HyperNews "base article" looks like a normal web page except there may be "messages" appended to the end after a "Messages" header, and there are controls to traverse the messages, add new ones, etc.
New messages are always postioned after older messages in the same discussion.
The newest of the new messages have a 
icon of some kind to draw your attention.
Navigation
You can use one of the navigation buttons to simplify reading of neighboring
messages.
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"Next Message" - Go to the next message that is replying to the same thing, skipping over any replies to this message. If there is no next message, go to the next message one level up.
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"More (or "Next-in-Thread") - Go to the first reply, if there is one, or the next message at the same level, or some higher level. Use this to read every message.
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Adding a Message
The button allows you to respond to the discussion
topic (or response) that is currently being displayed. Added messages will
automatically be displayed in the message tree at the end of the discussion
page.
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about adding a message
Submitting your Message
When you are done editing your message, select the Preview Message button.
The next page will be your message formatted as it will appear to readers
(using your browser at least), with a Submit button at the top. If it looks
OK, go ahead and Submit it. If you want to edit your message, use your
browser to go back to the previous page, the message form.
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Administration of Messages
You can reorganize previously posted messages by selecting the "Admin"
mode button . This will redisplay the discussion's
message outline with a check box next to each message title. Simply select
the messages you want, then click on the Copy/Move/Delete button.
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Subscribe, Unsubscribe, and
Notification
You can be notified by email when any new messages are added to a discussion
(or any messages comprising that discussion).
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or inquire about your subscription status
for a particular article or message, first display that article or message.
Then select the "Subscribe" button at the bottom of the page.
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