[pan2] Add Pan manual
- From: Petr Kovář <pmkovar src gnome org>
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Author: Douglas Bollinger <dcb pa net>
Date: Wed Jan 26 02:37:28 2011 +0100
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+ <!ENTITY legal SYSTEM "legal.xml">
+ <!ENTITY appversion "1.0">
+ <!ENTITY manrevision "0.1">
+ <!ENTITY date "December 2006">
+ <!ENTITY app "<application>Pan</application>">
+ <!-- Information about the entities
+ The legal.xml file contains legal information, there is no need to edit the file.
+ Use the appversion entity to specify the version of the application.
+ Use the manrevision entity to specify the revision number of this manual.
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+<!-- =============Document Header ============================= -->
+<article id="index" lang="en">
+<!-- please do not change the id; for translations, change lang to -->
+<!-- appropriate code -->
+ <articleinfo>
+ <title><application>Pan</application> Manual v1.0</title>
+
+ <copyright>
+ <year>2006</year>
+ <holder>Douglas Bollinger</holder>
+ </copyright>
+<!-- translators: uncomment this:
+
+ <copyright>
+ <year>2002</year>
+ <holder>ME-THE-TRANSLATOR (Latin translation)</holder>
+ </copyright>
+
+ -->
+<!-- An address can be added to the publisher information. If a role is
+ not specified, the publisher/author is the same for all versions of the
+ document. -->
+ <publisher>
+ <publishername>Pan Documentation Project</publishername>
+ </publisher>
+
+
+ <!-- This file contains link to license for the documentation (GNU FDL), and
+ other legal stuff such as "NO WARRANTY" statement. Please do not change
+ any of this. -->
+
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author>
+ <firstname>Douglas</firstname>
+ <surname>Bollinger</surname>
+ <affiliation>
+ <orgname>Pan Documentation Project</orgname>
+ <address><email>pan rebelbase com</email></address>
+ </affiliation>
+ </author>
+
+<!-- This is appropriate place for other contributors: translators,
+ maintainers, etc. Commented out by default.
+
+ <othercredit role="translator">
+ <firstname>Latin</firstname>
+ <surname>Translator 1</surname>
+ <affiliation>
+ <orgname>Latin Translation Team</orgname>
+ <address> <email>translator gnome org</email> </address>
+ </affiliation>
+ <contrib>Latin translation</contrib>
+ </othercredit>
+-->
+ </authorgroup>
+
+
+<!-- According to GNU FDL, revision history is mandatory if you are -->
+<!-- modifying/reusing someone else's document. If not, you can omit it. -->
+<!-- Remember to remove the &manrevision; entity from the revision entries other
+-->
+<!-- than the current revision. -->
+<!-- The revision numbering system for GNOME manuals is as follows: -->
+<!-- * the revision number consists of two components -->
+<!-- * the first component of the revision number reflects the release version of the GNOME desktop. -->
+<!-- * the second component of the revision number is a decimal unit that is incremented with each revision
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+<!-- is written in that desktop timeframe is V2.0, the second version of the manual is V2.1, etc. -->
+<!-- When the desktop release version changes to V3.x, the revision number of the manual changes -->
+<!-- to V3.0, and so on. -->
+ <revhistory>
+ <revision>
+ <revnumber>V 0.1</revnumber>
+ <date>December 2006</date>
+ <revdescription>
+ <para role="author">Douglas Bollinger
+ <email>pan rebelbase com</email>
+ </para>
+ <para role="publisher">GNOME Documentation Project</para>
+ </revdescription>
+ </revision>
+ </revhistory>
+
+ <releaseinfo>This manual describes Pan version 1.0.</releaseinfo>
+ <legalnotice>
+ <title>Feedback</title>
+ <para>To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding the <application>Pan</application> application or
+ this manual, follow the directions in the <ulink url="ghelp:gnome-feedback" type="help">GNOME Feedback
Page</ulink>.
+ </para>
+<!-- Translators may also add here feedback address for translations -->
+ </legalnotice>
+ </articleinfo>
+
+ <indexterm zone="index">
+ <primary>Pan</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ <indexterm zone="index">
+ <primary>pan</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+
+<!-- ============= Document Body ============================= -->
+
+<!-- ============= Introduction ============================== -->
+
+ <sect1 id="pan-introduction">
+ <title>Introduction</title>
+ <para>The &app; application enables you to read and post articles on Usenet.</para>
+ </sect1>
+
+<!-- ============= Getting Started ============================== -->
+
+ <sect1 id="pan-getstart">
+ <title>Getting Started</title>
+ <para>This section provides information on how to start &app;, and describes the &app; user
interface.</para>
+
+ <sect2 id="pan-getstart-start">
+ <title>To Start <application>Pan</application></title>
+ <para>You can start &app; in the following ways:
+ </para>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><guimenu>Applications</guimenu> menu</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Choose
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guisubmenu>Internet </guisubmenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Pan Newsreader</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>. </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Command line</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>To start &app; from a command line, type the following command,
+ then press <keycap>Return</keycap>:</para>
+ <para>
+ <command>pan</command>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </sect2>
+
+<!-- ============= Main Window ============================== -->
+
+ <sect2 id="pan-getstart-mainwindow">
+ <title>When You Start <application>Pan</application></title>
+ <para>When you start &app;, the following window is displayed:</para>
+
+ <!-- ==== Figure ==== -->
+ <figure id="mainwindow-fig">
+ <title><application>Pan</application> Main Window</title>
+ <screenshot>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject><imagedata fileref="figures/pan_window.png" format="PNG"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ <!-- EPS versions of the figures are not required at the moment. -->
+ <!--
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="figures/image.eps" format="EPS"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ -->
+ <textobject>
+ <phrase>This is the &app; main window</phrase>
+ </textobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </screenshot>
+ </figure>
+ <!-- ==== End of Figure ==== -->
+
+ <!-- Include any descriptions of the GUI immediately after the screenshot of the main UI, -->
+ <!-- for example, the items on the menubar and on the toolbar. This section is optional. -->
+
+ <para>The main &app; window contains the following elements:
+ </para>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><interface>Menubar. </interface></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para> The menubar contains all the commands that you need to run &app;.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><interface>Toolbar.</interface> </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para> The toolbar contains a subset of the commands that you can access from the menubar. It
also contains
+ two textboxes that allow you to limit the number of groups and/or the number of
articles displayed.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><interface>Group Pane.</interface> </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The Group Pane displays a list of all the newsgroups available on the server.
This list is split into
+ two groups: Subscribed Groups are a user-selected list of favorite groups,
Other Groups are the rest of the
+ available groups from the server.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><interface>Header Pane.</interface> </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The Header Pane displays a list of all the individual article headers available
in the selected group.
+ The Header Pane is highly customizable via sorting, threading and
scoring.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><interface>Body Pane.</interface> </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The Body Pane displays the text of the selected article header.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><interface>Statusbar. </interface></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The Status Bar displays information about current &app;
+ activity:</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para>Current number of connections to the
server</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Number of uncompleted tasks in the Task
Mananger</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Completed percentage of current
tasks</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Error status of the event log</para></listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ <para>When you right-click in the &app; window, the application displays
+ a popup menu. The popup menu contains the most common commands for whichever pane you
clicked.</para>
+ <para>Like other applications, actions in &app; can be performed in serveral ways: with the menu,
with the toolbar
+ or with shortcut keys. The shortcut key for most menu items is shown in the menu itself,
following the menu
+ command.</para>
+ </sect2>
+
+</sect1>
+
+ <!-- ================ Usenet in a Nutshell================================ -->
+
+ <sect1 id="pan-nutshell">
+ <title>Usenet in a Nutshell</title>
+ <para>Knowledge about how Usenet works will make using Pan easier.</para>
+ <sect2 id="pan-nutshell-description">
+ <title>Description</title>
+ <para>Usenet is a distributed discussion system. Using a special program called a
newsreader, a user accesses
+ a news server to read and post email-like messages called articles. These
articles are then exchanged
+ back and forth with other news servers throughout the world. In this way,
articles proprogate from one
+ news server to another throughout the entire Usenet system.</para>
+ </sect2>
+ <sect2 id="pan-nutshell-organize">
+ <title>Organization</title>
+ <para>Articles are organized into catagories called groups. In discussion groups,
most articles are responses
+ to another article. The set of articles which can be traced to one single
non-reply article is called a
+ thread. When articles are organized into threads, it is much easier to
follow a single discussion.</para>
+ </sect2>
+ <sect2 id="pan-nutshell-headers">
+ <title>Article Headers</title>
+ <para>Articles are routed around Usenet based on the information contained in the
article header, which is the
+ first part of an article that contains information like the subject, author,
date and routing information.
+ To save time and bandwidth, most newsreaders first download just the article
headers to sort and thread
+ them. The user selects a article of interest from the list of headers and
then downloads the article body
+ to read.</para>
+ </sect2>
+ <sect2 id="pan-nutshell-binary">
+ <title>Binary Data</title>
+ <para>Usenet was originally created to distribute text content encoded in 7-bit
ASCII. With additional
+ encoding programs, multiple posts per chunk and other various tricks, it
became possible to send binary
+ data through Usenet. Certain groups are devoted specifically to binary
content such as images, music or
+ movies.</para>
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+
+<!-- ================ Basic Usage =========================== -->
+
+ <sect1 id="pan-basic-usage">
+ <title>Basic Usage</title>
+ <para>This section is an overview on how to perform basic Usenet actions with &app;.
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <xref linkend="pan-basic-server"/></para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <xref linkend="pan-basic-groups"/></para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <xref linkend="pan-basic-articles"/></para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <xref linkend="pan-basic-post"/></para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <xref linkend="pan-basic-reply"/></para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <xref linkend="pan-basic-binaries"/></para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist> </para>
+
+ <!-- ================ Basic Usage Subsection ================================ -->
+
+ <sect2 id="pan-basic-server">
+ <title>Setup a News Server</title>
+ <para>When you start &app; for the first time, the <interface>Add a Server</interface> dialog
is displayed.</para>
+
+ <para>At this point, you must enter the connection information for the server you
wish to access. After you
+ enter this information, &app; will contact the server and download a list of
all the groups the server
+ carries and save it to disk.. </para>
+
+ <para> Refer to <xref linkend="pan-custom-servers"/> for more detailed
information:</para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <!-- ================ Basic Usage Subsection ================================ -->
+
+ <sect2 id="pan-basic-groups">
+ <title>Selecting a News Group</title>
+ <para>The Group Pane contains a list of all the news groups available on the server. Scroll through
the list
+ and enter a group by clicking on it's name.</para>
+
+ <para>If this is the first time you have entered this group, you will be prompted on how many
article headers you wish to
+ retrieve from the server. You can choose to retreive all article headers available for that
group or limit the
+ retrieval by either quantity of articles or number of days. </para>
+
+ <para>After making a selection from this dialog, &app; will download the article headers for the
+ selected group and save them locally on the computer.</para>
+
+ <note><para>Depending on the news server, certain groups might be "dead" and have no headers
available for
+ download.</para></note>
+
+ <para>After article header retrieval, the group name in the Group Pane will turn bold, which means
there are unread
+ articles in that particular group. Also the number of unread articles in the group will be
displayed in parenthesis
+ following the group name.</para>
+
+ <para>It's not unusual for a server to have tens of thousands of groups, but usually a user is only
interested in a few.
+ To better keep track of the interesting groups, select the group name by middle-clicking on it and
choose
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Groups</guimenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Subscribe</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>
+ . Scroll the group window to the top if necessary and you will see that the selected newsgroup is
listed directly under
+ the Subscribed Groups section.</para>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <!-- ================ Basic Usage Subsection ================================ -->
+ <sect2 id="pan-basic-articles">
+ <title>Reading Articles</title>
+ <para>After entering a group, the header pane will be filled with article headers. The header pane
can be sorted by
+ clicking on the topmost row of a column, where the column name is located. Clicking again
will reverse the sort.
+ The column that is used for sorting will have a downward arrow after the column name and
the entire column will
+ darken.</para>
+ <para>&app; defaults to showing collapsed threads. Only the first article of the thread is shown
with a number in
+ parenthesis indicating how many posts are hidden. Clicking on the right-facing arrow
before the header text will
+ expand the thread, showing the hidden articles in the thread. Reading the first article of
the thread will also
+ expand the thread. The keyboard shortcut for expanding threads is shift-right arrow.
Shift-left arrow will collapse
+ the thread.</para>
+ <para>Clicking on a header will download the article from the server, store it in the article cache
and display it in the
+ article pane. The article is then marked as read. Read articles are distinguished in the
header pane by using a
+ normal (not bold) font and by showing a open envelope icon in the state column.</para>
+ <para>You can scroll the message in the Article Pane by using the scrollbar or by pressing the
spacebar. Whenever
+ the bottom of the retreived article is already displayed, press the spacebar will download
the next
+ article.</para>
+ </sect2>
+ <!-- ================ Basic Usage Subsection ================================ -->
+ <sect2 id="pan-basic-post">
+ <title>Posting Articles</title>
+ <para>To post an article in a group and start a new thread, select the group you wish to post to in
the Group Pane
+ and then choose
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Post</guimenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Post to a Newsgroup</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>.
+ If this is the first time you have posted an article to a newsgroup, the <interface>Posting
Profile</interface>
+ dialog will appear and you will be required to fill in some information. Next, the
+ <interface>Post Article</interface> dialog will appear. Type in a subject and then enter
the body of the message
+ at the bottom. When done, choose
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>File</guimenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Send Article</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>
+ to send the article to the news server and out to the rest of Usenet.</para>
+
+ <para> Refer to <xref linkend="pan-posting-profiles"/> and <xref linkend="pan-posting-dialog"/>
for more detailed
+ information:</para>
+ </sect2>
+ <!-- ================ Basic Usage Subsection ================================ -->
+ <sect2 id="pan-basic-reply">
+ <title>Replying to Articles</title>
+ <para>If you want to post a reply to a specific article and have your followup appear in that
article's thread,
+ highlight that article in the Header Pane with the middle mouse button and use
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Post</guimenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Followup to Newsgroup</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>.
+ The highlighted article's text will appear as quoted text (each line is preceeded by a ">")
in the editor window.
+ Type in your response and then choose
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>File</guimenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Send Article</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>
+ to send the article to the news server. </para>
+ <para>If you want to send a reply to a specfic article via email, highlight that article in
the Header Pane with
+ the middle mouse button and choose
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Post</guimenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Reply to Author in Mail</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>
+ . The highlighted article's text will appear as quoted text (each line is preceeded by a
">") in the editor window.
+ Type in your response and then choose
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>File</guimenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Send Article</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>
+ and the text will be sent to the default external email application. Double-check the To:
field and then send the
+ email as you normally would with that application.</para>
+ </sect2>
+ <!-- ================ Basic Usage Subsection ================================ -->
+ <sect2 id="pan-basic-binaries">
+ <title>Downloading Binaries</title>
+ <para>A binary file in Usenet is usually composed of many smaller articles. &app;
automatically organizes all
+ these articles under one special article header. If all the data that comprises the
binary header made it
+ through the Usenet network successfully, a green, full puzzle-piece is displayed in
the first column. To save
+ the data, select the special header in the header window and use
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Articles</guimenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Save Articles</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>
+ to download and save the binary data to disk.</para>
+
+ <para>If the binary posts are corrupted by missing or incorrect data, a red, incomplete
puzzle-piece is displayed
+ in the first column. The file may be saved, but it will probably be corrupt in some
way.</para>
+ <note><para>Supporting binary newsgroups takes a large amount of bandwidth. Unless you are
using a premium news
+ server provider, it is not unusual for many binary files to be missing or
corrupt.</para></note>
+ </sect2>
+</sect1>
+
+ <!-- ============= News Groups ================== -->
+ <sect1 id="pan-groups">
+ <title>Groups</title>
+ <para>Working with groups in &app;.
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <xref linkend="pan-groups-view"/></para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <xref linkend="pan-groups-actions"/></para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <xref linkend="pan-groups-newsrc"/></para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist> </para>
+
+ <!-- ================ Groups Subsection ================================ -->
+
+ <sect2 id="pan-groups-view">
+ <title>Group Views</title>
+
+ <para>The total number of groups on a news server can be quite extensive. An easy way to find a
specific group is
+ to use the Group Name textbox in the toolbar. Only groups that match the characters typed
in the box will be
+ displayed in the Group Pane. If you wish to return the Group Pane to it's original state,
simply delete the
+ characters in the box by clicking the red X icon to the right of the box.</para>
+
+ <para>The group names presented in the Group Pane can be shortened by choosing
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>View</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Group Pane</guisubmenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Abbreviate Names in Group Pane</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>
+ . This only alters the way the names are presented in this pane.</para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <!-- ================ Groups Subsection ================================ -->
+ <sect2 id="pan-groups-actions">
+ <title>Group Actions</title>
+
+ <para>While a news group is selected, you can perform the following actions:</para>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Groups</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Mark Group Read</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Mark all articles in a group read.</para>
+ <para>A typical way to read news is to read all the
interesting threads and when done mark the
+ group read. The next time you start the news
reader, choose
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Groups</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Get New Headers in Selected
Group</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ . With
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>View</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Header Pane</guisubmenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Match only Unread
Articles</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>
+ , the only headers you will see will be the new headers you
just downloaded.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Groups</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Get New Headers in Subscribed Groups</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Grab new headers for all the groups in the Subscribed Groups
section.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Groups</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Edit Group Preferences</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Opens the Group Preferences dialog. Within this dialog you can
customize certain &app;
+ features per group:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para>Character encoding</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Location in the file hierarchy where
attachments are
+ saved</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>The posting profile.</para></listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Groups</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Subscribe</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Add a favorite group to the Subscribed Groups section of the Group
Pane. Unsubscribe is
+ the opposite of this command.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Groups</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Refresh Group List</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Resync the local group list that &app; uses with the current listing
on the news
+ server.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Groups</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Delete Group's Articles</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Delete all the articles for the selected group from the article
index.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </sect2>
+ <!-- ================ Groups Subsection ================================ -->
+ <sect2 id="pan-groups-newsrc">
+ <title>The Newsrc File</title>
+ <para>The group list, subscribe/unsubscribe status of each group and the articles marked read in
each group are
+ stored in the newsrc file at <filename>~/.pan2/newsrc-1.</filename></para>
+ <para>The newsrc file format is standard among many Unix newsreaders and can be used to import and
export this
+ information between these applications.</para>
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+
+ <!-- ============= Article Headers ================== -->
+ <sect1 id="pan-headers">
+ <title>Headers</title>
+ <para>Users will spend most of their time in &app; interacting with the article headers in the
Header Pane. &app; has
+ many features to optimize header viewing and article retreival.
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <xref linkend="pan-headers-view"/></para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <xref linkend="pan-headers-movement"/></para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <xref linkend="pan-headers-selection"/></para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <xref linkend="pan-headers-action"/></para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist> </para>
+
+ <!-- ================ Headers Subsection ================================ -->
+ <sect2 id="pan-headers-view">
+ <title>Header View</title>
+
+ <para>Since the total number of all the available article headers in a group might be enormous,
&app; has several
+ options to limit the number of visible headers to a more managable number.</para>
+
+ <para>In the toolbar, the Subject or Author text box is a filter than can be used to limit the
viewable headers.
+ Usually this is used to search for a specific article or a group of articles. Click on the
hourglass icon to
+ choose which header field to base the filter. Only the article headers that match the
characters typed into the
+ text box will be displayed. Click the red X to erase and reset.</para>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Choose
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Preferences</guisubmenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Headers</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>To hide or change the display order of the Header Pane columns.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Choose
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>View</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Header Pane</guisubmenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Thread Headers</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>To enable or disable header threading in the Header Pane.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <!-- ================ Headers Sub-Subsection ================================ -->
+
+ <sect3 id="pan-headers-view-replies">
+ <title>Replies of Matched Articles</title>
+
+ <para>The user can pick one of the next three options to control how &app; will display
replies of matched
+ articles.</para>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>In
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>View</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Header Pane</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Show Matching
Articles</guilabel></para>
+ <para>Show only articles that match the article
view options..</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Show Matching Articles'
Threads</guilabel></para>
+ <para>Not only show articles that match the article
view options, but also show all the
+ articles in the entire thread of the
matched article. This option will force read
+ headers to be visible regardless of the
view options.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Show Matching Articles
Subthreads</guilabel></para>
+ <para>Not only show articles that match the article
view options, but also show articles
+ that are replies of any matched
article.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </sect3>
+
+ <!-- ================ Headers Sub-Subsection ================================ -->
+
+ <sect3 id="pan-headers-view-matches">
+ <title>Article View Matches</title>
+
+ <para>These options control which article headers are displayed in the Header Pane.</para>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>In
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>View</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Header Pane</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Match Only Unread
Articles</guilabel></para>
+ <para>Only display articles that haven't been
marked read.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Match Only Cached
Articles</guilabel></para>
+ <para>Only display articles that are available in
the local article cache in the computer's
+ hard drive.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Match Only Complete
Articles</guilabel></para>
+ <para>Only binary articles that are complete (full,
green puzzle piece in the state
+ column) will be displayed. This also hides
text articles.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Match Only My
Articles</guilabel></para>
+ <para>Only articles that the user has posted will
be displayed.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Match Scores of
xxxx</guilabel></para>
+ <para>These options deal with scoring where you
choose to display an article based on
+ it's score. Refer to <xref
linkend="pan-scoring"/> for more information.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </sect3>
+ </sect2>
+ <!-- ================ Headers Subsection ================================ -->
+ <sect2 id="pan-headers-movement">
+ <title>Header Movement</title>
+ <para>Movement around the Header Pane can be controlled by several methods, allowing the user to
easily jump around
+ complicated discussion threads with minimal input. &app; was designed for mouse-less
article viewing, so most
+ people use the keyboard shortcuts associated with these menu actions. The keyboard
shortcut for most menu
+ actions is displayed after the menu command.</para>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Go</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Read More</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Scroll the article in the Article Pane. If the article is
already scrolled to the bottom,
+ grab the next article. You can customize the function of
this key by changing
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Preferences</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Articles</guisubmenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Space selects next article rather than next
unread</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>
+ .</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Go</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Read Back</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Scroll the article up in the Article Pane. If it's already
scrolled to the top, grab the
+ previous article displayed in the Thread Pane.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Go</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Next Unread Group</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Skip down to the next subscribed group in the Group Pane with
unread articles and read the
+ first article.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Go</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Next Group</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Skip down to the next subscribed group in the Group Pane and
read the first article.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Go</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Next Unread Article</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Read the next unread article in the Thread Pane.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Go</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Next Article</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Read the next article, regardless of it's read/unread
state.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Go</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Next Watched Article</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Read the next watched article. A watched article is an
article with a score of at least
+ 9999. Refer to <xref linkend="pan-scoring"/> for more
information.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Go</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Previous Article</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Read the previous article in the Thread Pane. This doesn't
scroll the Article Pane like
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Go</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Read Back</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ .</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Go</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Parent Article</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Read the article for which the currently selected article is
a reply.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Go</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Next Unread Thread</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Skip to the next unread thread and read the first
article.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Go</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Next Thread</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Skip to the next thread and read the first article in that
thread.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Go</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Previous Thread</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Skip back to the last thread and read the last article in
that thread.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <!-- ================ Headers Subsection ================================ -->
+ <sect2 id="pan-headers-selection">
+ <title>Header Selection</title>
+
+ <para>In order to perform an action on a article header, you must select it first. Use the middle
mouse button to
+ select a article. Drag the selection field with the mouse to select multiple articles.
Hold down the control
+ key while clicking articles with the middle mouse button to add individual articles to the
selection.</para>
+
+ <para>&app; also offers a number of other ways to efficiently select articles.</para>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Select All Articles</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Select all articles in the Header Pane.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Add Subthreads to Selection</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Add all articles that are a reply to the selected article to the
selection.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Add Threads to Selection</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Add the entire thread of the selected article to the selection.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Add Similar Articles to Selection</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>With one article selected, add others articles with the same author
and from the current thread
+ to the selection.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Deselect All Articles</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Cancel the current selection.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Select Article Body</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Select the entire article body. You must retreive the article
first.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </sect2>
+ <!-- ================ Headers Subsection ================================ -->
+
+ <sect2 id="pan-headers-action">
+ <title>Header Action</title>
+ <para>Whenever &app; downloads a article body, the data is saved to disk in the article cache. The
article cache is
+ a fixed-size buffer and when the cache has beened filled, the older articles are erased to
make room for newer
+ ones.</para>
+
+ <para>These are the actions you can perform on a article selected in the Header Pane.</para>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Articles</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Save Article</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Save the highlighted article to disk. When you select this option,
the Save Articles
+ dialog will open. From here, you can choose to: </para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para><guilabel>Save Text</guilabel></para>
+ <para>Save the text of the displayed article.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem><para><guilabel>Save Attachments</guilabel></para>
+ <para>Save the binary attachments of the selected article
to disk.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem><para><guilabel>Path</guilabel></para>
+ <para>Where in the file hierarchy to save the binary
attachment or text.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem><para><guilabel>Priority</guilabel></para>
+ <para>Where to add the file in the Task Manager
queue.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Articles</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Read Article</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Download the body of the selected article in the Header Pane and
display it in the
+ Article Pane.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Articles</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Cache Article</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Download the body of the selected article in the Header Pane but do
NOT display it in the
+ Article Pane.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Articles</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Mark Article as Read</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Change the state of the article to read.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Articles</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Mark Article as Unread</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Change the state of the article to unread.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Articles</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Delete Article</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Delete the selected article in the current group from the article
index.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+ <!-- ============= Article Bodies ================== -->
+ <sect1 id="pan-body">
+ <title>Body</title>
+ <para>The Body Pane displays the text of a selected article header.</para>
+
+ <sect2 id="pan-body-images">
+ <title>Digital Images</title>
+ <para>Some groups specialize in digital images where each binary post is a seperate image.
&app; can
+ automatically decode and display these images. To display the image, select and
view the article header as
+ you normally would for text and the image will be displayed in the Body Pane.
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 id="pan-body-views">
+ <title>Body Views</title>
+ <para>The way information is presented in the Body Pane can be customized in several
ways.</para>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>In
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>View</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Body Pane</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Wrap Article Body</guilabel></para>
+ <para>Will force the text to flow into paragraphs
instead of running off the edge of the text
+ window. This is useful to fix badly
formatted articles.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Show All Headers in Body
Pane</guilabel></para>
+ <para>The headers displayed in the Header Pane are
only a small subset of the all the
+ article headers. This commands will
display the complete list of article headers in the
+ Body Pane before the article text.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Rot 13 Selected
Text</guilabel></para>
+ <para>A simple cipher used to hide story spoilers,
joke punchlines, etc. Select a block of
+ encrypted text and use this option to
decode it to clear text.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Use Monospace Font</guilabel></para>
+ <para>Sometimes Usenet authors will create simple
ASCII artwork or diagrams. By default,
+ &app; uses proportional fonts for all text
which renders ASCII artwork unreadable. By
+ choosing this option, the text of the Body
Pane will be displayed using the Monospace
+ Font.</para>
+ <para> You can configure the monospace font in
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Preferences</guisubmenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Font</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>
+ .</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Show Smilies as
Graphics</guilabel></para>
+ <para>Change ASCII emoticons like :) into
graphical versions.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Show *Bold*, _Underlined_ and
/Italiced/</guilabel></para>
+ <para>Over the years, Usenet authors have
devised several strategies to overcome the
+ limited typographic ability of
ASCII. Enabling this option will format the article
+ text following these typographic
hints.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Size Pictures to
Fit</guilabel></para>
+ <para>Size digital images so they will
display in the Body Pane without scrolling.
+ Click on the image to view it in
it's original size.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+
+ <!-- ================ Posting ================================ -->
+ <sect1 id="pan-posting">
+ <title>Posting</title>
+ <para>How to post articles in &app;.
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <xref linkend="pan-posting-actions"/></para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <xref linkend="pan-posting-profiles"/></para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <xref linkend="pan-posting-dialog"/></para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist> </para>
+
+ <!-- ================ Posting Subsection ================================ -->
+
+ <sect2 id="pan-posting-actions">
+ <title>Actions</title>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Post</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Post to Newsgroup</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Post an article to the selected newsgroup.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Post</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Followup to Newsgroup</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Post a reply to the selected article and continue the thread.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Post</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Reply to Author in Mail</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Post a reply to the selected article via email.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <para>While highlighting in the Header Pane the article header of a post that you posted to the
news server, you can
+ perform these two actions:</para>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Post</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Supersede Article</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>This allows you to supersede an earlier article with another newer
post.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Post</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Cancel Article</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>This allows you to cancel a earlier article.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ <note><para>Most public news servers disable the supersede and cancel commands for security
reasons. Make sure you
+ are comfortable with your article before you post it to the news server, because in
most cases it will be
+ impossible to take back or alter what you have said.</para></note>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <!-- ================ Posting Subsection ================================ -->
+ <sect2 id="pan-posting-profiles">
+ <title>Posting Profiles Dialog</title>
+ <para>Posting Profiles allow the user to configure different Usenet personas that may be customized
for particular
+ groups.</para>
+ <para>The <interface>Posting Profiles</interface> dialog displays a list of currently configured
Posting Profiles.
+ From here you can Remove or Edit a profile by clicking on the profile's name and press the
appropriate button.
+ Clicking add will start a new profile.</para>
+
+ <sect3 id="pan-posting-profiles-mandatory">
+ <title>Mandatory Information</title>
+ <para>Each profile contains the following information:</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Profile Name</guilabel></para>
+ <para>The name of this profile.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Full Name</guilabel></para>
+ <para>The author name that will be used in the article's header.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Email Address</guilabel></para>
+ <para>The email address that will be used in the article's header.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Post Articles via</guilabel></para>
+ <para>If multiple news servers are configured, choose which server will
receive the article.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </sect3>
+
+ <sect3 id="pan-posting-profiles-signature">
+ <title>Signatures</title>
+ <para>A signature is a block of text that is appended to the end of every outgoing article.
Generally it is contact
+ information, a personal motto or a witty saying.</para>
+ <para>Click "Use Signature" to activate signature support.</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Text</guilabel></para>
+ <para>Type in the text you wish to use as a signature.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Text File</guilabel></para>
+ <para>Enter the location of the file in the disk hierarchy. The Browse
button can assist in this.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Command</guilabel></para>
+ <para>Type in the command you wish to run and the output of that command
will be captured and used as the
+ signature text.</para>
+ <para>Example: <command>fortune -s</command></para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </sect3>
+
+ <sect3 id="pan-posting-profiles-optional">
+ <title>Option Information</title>
+ <para>Optional Information:</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Attribution</guilabel></para>
+ <para>When you reply to a post, the text in the attribution box proceeds
the quoted text. The %d flag is
+ replaced the by the date of the selected post while the %n flag is
replaced with the author of the
+ selected post.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Extra Headers</guilabel></para>
+ <para>This is a advanced option to add extra headers to the article.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </sect3>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <!-- ================ Posting Subsection ================================ -->
+ <sect2 id="pan-posting-dialog">
+ <title>Post Article Dialog</title>
+ <para>Whenever you post an article you use the <interface>Post Article Dialog</interface>.</para>
+
+ <sect3 id="pan-posting-dialog-composition">
+ <title>Composition</title>
+ <para>The <interface>Post Article Dialog</interface> is composed of the following
parts:</para>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><guilabel>Menubar.</guilabel></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para> The menubar contains all the commands that you need to
post an article.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><guilabel>Toolbar.</guilabel> </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para> The toolbar contains a subset of the commands that you
can access from the menubar.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><guilabel>From</guilabel></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Select which Posting Profile to use.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><guilabel>Subject</guilabel></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Type in the subject of your post. If this post is a
reply, this line is already
+ filled-in.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><guilabel>Newsgroups</guilabel></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>A commoa seperated list of all the groups that will
receive this article.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><guilabel>Mailto</guilabel></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Enter a email address to send the article.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><guilabel>More Headers</guilabel></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>An advanced option to manually add more headers.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><guilabel>Text Area</guilabel></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Where you enter the text of the article.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </sect3>
+
+ <sect3 id="pan-posting-dialog-file">
+ <title>File Commands</title>
+ <para>These file commands are available from within the <interface>Post Article
dialog</interface>.</para>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>File</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Send Article</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>When you are done entering the article, use this command to
send the article to the news
+ server.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>File</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Save Draft</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Save your current work on the article to disk.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>File</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Open Draft</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Load a previous draft and continue editing.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </sect3>
+
+ <sect3 id="pan-posting-dialog-edit">
+ <title>Editing Coammands</title>
+ <para>These editing commands are available from within the <interface>Post Article
Dialog</interface>.</para>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Manage Posting Profiles</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>See Posting Profiles.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Run Editor</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Starts an external editor. Type in your post in the external
editor as your
+ normally would and save your work. The external editor
will close and the text that
+ was entered into that editor will be located in the text
area.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Set Editor</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Choose which external editor to use.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Manage Editor List</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Setup another external editor.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Cut, Copy and Paste</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The standard GUI text functions.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Wrap Now</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Force the text flow into paragraphs instead of running off
the edge of
+ the text area.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Wrap Text</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Set this option to have text automatically wrap when
entered.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Check Spelling</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Set this option and possible spelling errors in the text area
will be unlined by a
+ red wavy line.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>ROT 13</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>ROT13 is a simple cipher to hide story spoilers, joke
punchlines, etc. Select the
+ text to cypher and use this command.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ <tip><para>&app; does not support the posting of binary data (pictures, music, etc) at this
time.</para></tip>
+ </sect3>
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+
+ <!-- ================ Tasks ================================ -->
+
+ <sect1 id="pan-tasks">
+ <title>Tasks</title>
+ <para>Certains tasks performed by &app;, like downloading binary posts or grabbing new headers for
a group, can take
+ a long time. These tasks are queued and performed in the background while &app; is doing
other things like
+ grabbing a article.
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <xref linkend="pan-tasks-cancel"/></para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <xref linkend="pan-tasks-taskmanager"/></para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <xref linkend="pan-tasks-nzb"/></para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist> </para>
+
+ <!-- ================ Tasks Subsection ================================ -->
+ <sect2 id="pan-tasks-cancel">
+ <title>Cancel Last Task</title>
+ <para>You can quickly cancel the last task added to the task queue (The Oops command) by selecting:
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>File</guimenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Cancel Last Task</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>
+ .</para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <!-- ================ Tasks Subsection ================================ -->
+ <sect2 id="pan-tasks-taskmanager">
+ <title>Task Manager</title>
+ <para>Background tasks can be manipulated by using the Task Manager. The Task Manager can be
accessed with
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>File</guimenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Task Manger</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>
+ or by left-clicking in the task area of the Status Bar at the bottom of the &app;
screen.</para>
+ <para> The Task Manger window is composed of the following parts:</para>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><guilabel>Toolbar.</guilabel> </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para> The toolbar contains all the commands you need to manipulate
the tasks in the Task Manger
+ Window.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><guilabel>Informational Area.</guilabel> </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para> The Informational Area displays the number of queued tasks,
the amount of data that needs to
+ downloaded to complete the queued tasks, the current download
rate and the estimated time needed
+ to complete the queued tasks.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><guilabel>Task List.</guilabel> </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para> A list of queued tasks. Each row is a separate task.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ <para>In order to manipulate a task, click on it and the row will be highlighted. Then click
on one of the
+ buttons in the toolbar.</para>
+ <tip><para>If &app; is shutdown whiles tasks are still waiting in the task manager, the task
list is saved to disk
+ and resumed when &app; is restarted. </para></tip>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <!-- ================ Tasks Subsection ================================ -->
+ <sect2 id="pan-tasks-nzb">
+ <title>NZB Files</title>
+ <para>&app; saves it's task list in <filename>~/.pan2/tasks.nzb</filename> file. You can
import other task lists
+ into &app; by choosing
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>File</guimenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Import NZB Files</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>
+ .</para>
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+
+<!-- ================ Scoring ================================ -->
+ <sect1 id="pan-scoring">
+ <title>Scoring</title>
+ <para>Scoring allows the user to give an article a rating based on user-defined scoring rules. This
rating can then be
+ used by &app; to perform score-based actions.</para>
+
+ <para>When a group's article headers are first downloaded from the news server, all the articles have a
score of 0.
+ Then the list of scoring rules in the score file are applied to each article. The score file rules
might give an
+ article from John Smith a high score, while articles with a subject line containing the phrase "For
Sale" a negative
+ score.</para>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <xref linkend="pan-scoring-actions"/></para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <xref linkend="pan-scoring-addrules"/></para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <xref linkend="pan-scoring-editrules"/></para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <xref linkend="pan-scoring-advanced"/></para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <!-- ============= Scoring Subsection ================== -->
+
+ <sect2 id="pan-scoring-actions">
+ <title>Scoring Actions</title>
+ <para>&app; can perform two actions based on a article's score:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para>View a article by using
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>View</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Header Pane</guisubmenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Match Scores of xxxx</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>
+ . The default is to hide articles (by not matching) with a score
of -9999. and view all other
+ scores.</para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>Change the background and text color of the score column in
the Header Pane. This is
+ defined in
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Preferences</guisubmenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Colors</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </para></listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
+ <!-- ============= Scoring Subsection ================== -->
+
+ <sect2 id="pan-scoring-addrules">
+ <title>Adding Scoring Rules</title>
+
+ <para>There are several ways to add rules to the score file. Select a article in the
Header Pane and then
+ select
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Articles</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Watch Thread</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ . This rule sets the score of any post located in the thread of the
selected article to 9999.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>The opposite of the above rule is
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Articles</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Ignore Thread</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ . This rule sets the score of any post located in the thread of the
selected article to -9999.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>Both of these scoring rules only work in the selected group and expire in one
month.</para>
+
+ <para>Selecting a article and selecting
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Articles</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Ignore Author</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ will open the <interface>New Scoring Rule dialog</interface>.</para>
+
+ <para>The default of this scoring rule is to score all the posts of the author of the
selected article -9999 for
+ the next month in the selected group. By clicking on various fields and selecting
different options in the
+ New Scoring Rule dialog, you can customize the rule further. For instance, instead
of having the rule expire
+ in one month, you can have the rule last forever. Also note that you can make the
rule add to the score of a
+ article, making it a watch rule. So the name "Ignore Author" can be somewhat of a
misnomer.</para>
+
+ <para>When finished, click add and rescore to close the dialog box.</para>
+
+ <para>Selecting a article and selecting
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Articles</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Add a Scoring Rule</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ is very similar to the Ignore Author section described above as it opens
the same <interface>New Scoring
+ Rule</interface> dialog, just with different defaults. Construct a
rule in the same fashion as
+ described above.</para>
+ </sect2>
+ <!-- ============= Scoring Subsection ================== -->
+
+ <sect2 id="pan-scoring-editrules">
+ <title>Editing or Deleting Scoring Rules</title>
+
+ <para>Selecting a article that is currently being scored and choosing
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Articles</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Edit Article's Watch/Ignore/Score</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ will open the <interface>Article's Scores</interface> dialog box. From this dialog
you can manipulate the
+ scoring rule for the currently selected article. Each rule will have its own row
describing the scoring
+ action (plus or minus points), locations and line number of this rule in the score
file and the texts of the
+ rule. Select the rule and click <guibutton>+Add</guibutton> button to alter the
rule or
+ <guibutton>-Remove</guibutton> button to delete the rule from the score file.
Click <guibutton>close and
+ rescore</guibutton> when finished.</para>
+ </sect2>
+ <!-- ============= Scoring Subsection ================== -->
+
+ <sect2 id="pan-scoring-advanced">
+ <title>Advanced Scoring</title>
+
+ <para>The scoring file is located at <filename>~/.pan2/Scoring</filename>. Advanced users
might want to edit this
+ file directly with a text editor to create advanced scoring rules that are
difficult or impossible to
+ construct from the <interface>New Scoring Rule</interface> dialog. The format of
the scoring rules is
+ similar to the application <application>slrn</application>, but be aware that not
all
+ <application>slrn</application> scoring functions will work in &app;.</para>
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+
+ <!-- ============= Customization ============================= -->
+ <sect1 id="pan-custom">
+ <title>Customization</title>
+ <para>This section describes how certain features or actions in &app; can be customized.</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <xref linkend="pan-custom-behavior"/></para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <xref linkend="pan-custom-gui"/></para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <xref linkend="pan-custom-externalapps"/></para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <xref linkend="pan-custom-articlecache"/></para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <xref linkend="pan-custom-servers"/></para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <!-- ============= Customization Subsection ================== -->
+ <sect2 id="pan-custom-behavior">
+ <title>Behavior</title>
+ <para>Many of the default actions of &app;, such as mouse clicks, actions when entering or leaving
+ a group and the action of the space bar can be altered.</para>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>In
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Preferences</guisubmenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Behavior</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Mouse</guilabel></para>
+ <para>The two boxes of the mouse section change the default
action of the left mouse button.
+ If unselected, you would have to double click on a
group or article to activate it.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Groups</guilabel></para>
+ <para>The selections in the group section control what
commands &app; will automatically run
+ when manipulating groups.</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The first box, when activated, will
automatically get new headers for all
+ subscribed groups whenever Pan is
started. This is the equivilant of using
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Groups</guimenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Get New Headers
in Subscribed Groups</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>
+ from the menubar.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The next box, when activated, will
automatically get new headers when entering a
+ group. This is the equivilant of
using
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Groups</guimenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Get New Headers in
Selected Group</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>
+ from the menubar.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The next box, when activated, will
mark the entire group read when leaving a group.
+ This is the equivilant of using
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Groups</guimenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Mark Group
Read</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>
+ from the menubar.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para> The last box in the Groups section,
when activated, will expand all threads in the
+ Header Pane when entering a
group.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Articles</guilabel></para>
+ <para>The first option, when activated, makes the spacebar
select the next article rather than
+ the next unread article. This is handy if you are
viewing a thread with read and unread
+ articles mixed together.</para>
+ <para>The next option activates smooth scrolling in the
Article Pane.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </sect2>
+ <!-- ============= Customization Subsection ================== -->
+ <sect2 id="pan-custom-gui">
+ <title>GUI Composition</title>
+ <para>The layout and view of the Group, Header and Body Panes in &app; can customized in serveral
ways.</para>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><guilabel>Pane Layout</guilabel></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>In
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Preferences</guisubmenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Layout</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>
+ the orientation of the Groups, Header and Body Panes can be manipulated.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><guilabel>Tabbed Layout</guilabel></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Instead of having all three panes share the &app; main window at one
time, another view, called
+ Tabbed Layout, can be activated by choosing
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>View</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Layout</guisubmenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Tabbed Layout</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>
+ . Now, only one of the three Panes will displayed at a time. Each Pane is
brought to the front of
+ other Panes by clicking on it's tab located directly under the tool bar or
by pressing "1", "2" or "3"
+ for the Group, Header or Body Pane respectively.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><guilabel>Show/Hide Panes</guilabel></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>You can hide a specific Pane by choosing from
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>View</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Layout</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ and using the selection box to show/hide each of the Panes.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><guilabel>Fonts</guilabel></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Choose
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Preferences</guisubmenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Fonts</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>
+ to select a font.</para>
+ <para>&app; can use the monospace font in the article Pane, if
activated.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><guilabel>Colors</guilabel></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Choose
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Preferences</guisubmenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Colors</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>
+ to customize the colors used in &app;.</para>
+ <para>The first section allows you to customize the colors used by scoring in the
Header Pane. See <xref
+ linkend="pan-scoring"/> for more information on how to use this
feature.</para>
+ <para>The second section allows you to customize the colors used in the Body
Pane.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </sect2>
+ <!-- ============= Customization Subsection ================== -->
+ <sect2 id="pan-custom-externalapps">
+ <title>External Applications</title>
+ <para>In this section you setup external applications that &app; can use.</para>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>In
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Preferences</guisubmenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Applications</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Web Browser</guilabel></para>
+ <para>Click the Web Button to choose which external
application to launch when clicking on a HTML
+ link.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Mail Reader</guilabel></para>
+ <para>Choose which external application to launch when
clicking on a email address or when
+ sending a post via email.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ <para>To setup an external text editor, choose
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Post</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Post to Newsgroup</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ . From the Post Article dialog menubar, choose
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Set Editor</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <!-- ============= Customization Subsection ================== -->
+ <sect2 id="pan-custom-articlecache">
+ <title>Article Cache Size</title>
+ <para>The article cache is a fixed-size disk buffer where &app; stores articles when they are
downloaded from a
+ news server. If the user downloads a large amount of binary attachments, the default cache
size might be
+ inadequate.</para>
+ <para>The artice cache size can be altered by manual editing the
<filename>~/.pan2/Preferences.xml</filename> file and
+ changing the value at 'cache-size-megs' value='xxxx' to whatever you need.</para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <!-- ============= Customization Subsection ================== -->
+
+ <sect2 id="pan-custom-servers">
+ <title>News Servers</title>
+ <para>&app; must connect to a special computer called a news server. The news server is the
gateway used to access
+ Usenet.</para>
+ <para>Choose
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Edit News Servers</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ and the <interface>Servers</interface> dialog will appear. Click on a server name and you
can edit or remove it
+ via the buttons. Click the add button to add another server.</para>
+
+ <para>When you add or edit an existing server, the <interface>Edit a Server's Settings</interface>
dialog will
+ appear.</para>
+ <para>In the location section:</para>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Address</guilabel></para>
+ <para>The internet address of the server.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Port</guilabel></para>
+ <para>The port of the server. Port 119 is the standard port number.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <para>The next section is the login information for the server. If you server requires a username
and password,
+ enter them here. If the server allows anonymous login or does not require authentication,
just let these
+ fields blank.</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Username</guilabel></para>
+ <para>Enter the login name if required.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Password</guilabel></para>
+ <para>Enter the password if required.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <para>The next section allows you to enter certain &app; settings that are server specific.</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Connection Limit</guilabel></para>
+ <para>&app; can open multiple connections to a server so the user can perform
simultaneous actions like
+ download a binary attachment will reading articles in a text group.</para>
+ <para>In order to follow the GNKSA rules, the maximum number of connections &app;
can have open with a server
+ is 4.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Expire Old Articles</guilabel></para>
+ <para>From this toggle box, you can pick a time when &app; will expire old articles
and remove them from it's
+ article index.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><guilabel>Server Rank</guilabel></para>
+ <para>When you have more than 1 server configured, &app; uses server rank to decide
from which server to
+ download the article. Only after all primary servers have been tried for
the article will &app; use the
+ fallback servers.</para>
+ <para>The reason for this feature is that a user might have access to a free server
and also have access to a
+ byte-limited premium server. Server ranking allows &app; to use the
fallback server as little as
+ possible.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+
+<!-- ============= Bugs ================================== -->
+<!-- This section is optional and is commented out by default.
+ You can use it to describe known bugs and limitations of the
+ program if there are any - please be frank and list all
+ problems you know of.
+
+ <sect1 id="mayapp-bugs">
+ <title>Known Bugs and Limitations</title>
+ <para> </para>
+ </sect1>
+-->
+</article>
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