Detailed Descriptions of HyperNews Functions

 Administration of Messages

You can reorganize messages that have been posted by using the copy, move, and delete commands. Starting with version HyperNews 1.9B5.6, the copy, move, and delete operations are combined into one interface, and there are two ways to use it. The first way allows you to perform the action on the currently displayed message and all submessages: click on the Copy/Move/Delete link on the bottom of the page (i.e. ). The second way allows you to select several messages at once and perform the same operation on all of them: click on "Admin Mode" on the bottom of the page to redisplay the outline with a check box next to each message title, select the messages you want, and then click on the Copy/Move/Delete button.

Both ways lead to the same form that gives you several options. You can specify a destination if you want to copy or move. The destination is a HyperNews relative path, relative to the directory HyperNews discussions are stored. For example, the destination for this page is /hn/instructions.html. The destination must be an existing article or message to which you want the messages added, so you have to know the name of the destination before you can do a copy or move. You also have the option of whether to notify subscribers at the destination.

You can specify whether to delete if you want to move or only delete. If you are not an administrator, you can generally only delete messages you own. If there are any submessages left after the deletion, the body of your message will be deleted, but there will still be a placeholder in the tree of messages; this will be removed once the submessages are deleted. If you also copied, the placeholder will forever forward the reader to the new location.

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