Detailed Descriptions of HyperNews Functions

Subscribe, Unsubscribe, and Notification

You can be notified by email when any new messages are added to an article or message (or any replies to those messages, etc). Read on for the det ails.

If you are the author of an article or message, and you provided a correct email address, then you are automatically subscribed; you need do nothing. This assumes that you are probably interested in finding out about any replies to your messages. You may explicitly unsubscribe either when you post the message or by using the Notification feature described here.

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" (or "Notification" for older versions of HyperNews) link at the bottom of the page.

On this Notification form, first enter your userid or email address if it is not filled in or not correct. Then you can either change any of your subscription information or inquire about it; select "Change" or "Inquire About" to choose.

The form allows you to change the subscription info for the message you were displaying, or any of its ancestors all the way up to the base article. The title of each message or article is displayed in a list, and for each you can select either "Subscribe", "Unsubscribe" or "Not Specified". If you select "Not Specified", that means HyperNews will use whatever you select at the next level up, or "Unsubscribe" if you are already at the top level.

You could use the notification feature in several ways. You could subscribe at the base article level and unsubscribe to discussions that have diverged into areas you are not interested in. Or you could stay unsubscribed at the base article level and only subscribe to discussions that you are interested in - you'll have to find out about them first, of course, by browsing through the messages.

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