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1. Preface
   • Preface
     • About this Manual
     • About MT-NewsWatcher
     • System Requirements
     • Y2K Compliance
     • About the Author
     • Feedback
     • Manual Copyright
     • Acknowledgements
     • Legal
2. Table of Contents
   • short
   • normal
3. Introduction
   • Usenet Organization and Etiquette
     • Introduction to Usenet
     • Netiquette
     • Spaf's Words of Wisdom
   • Getting Started
     • Installing and Configuring MT-NewsWatcher
     • Creating Your User Group List
     • Reading the News
     • Reading Old Articles
     • Replying to Articles
     • Posting New Articles
     • Getting Help
4. Features
   • Setting up News Servers
     • Multiple News Servers
     • Associating a User Group List with a News Server
     • The Server Full Groups List
     • Remotely fetched newsrc
     • News URLs and temporary servers
     • Where information is stored
   • Configuring and Using Personalities
     • Introduction to Personalities
     • Creating Personalities
     • The Signature and Extra Headers Dialog
     • Tuning Personality Use
     • Personality Storage
   • Viewing and Sending Binaries
     • Introduction to Attached Files
     • How MT-NewsWatcher handles binaries
     • Mass extracting binaries
     • How Binaries are encoded
     • Posting binaries
     • Binary-related Preferences
   • Sorting and Threading Articles
     • Sorting Articles
     • Threading Articles
   • Filtering Articles
     • Filters Basics
     • Working with Filters
     • Creating Filters
       • Creating and Editing Filters
       • Using Regular Expressions
     • Setting filter defaults
     • Filters and download time
     • The Filters File
     • Converting YA-NewsWatcher filters
     • Suggest some filters!
     • Download filters
   • Finding and Searching
     • Finding and Searching
     • Finding Information in Windows
     • Searching for Articles on the Server
     • Searching in Articles that You have Read
   • International Language Support
     • Introduction
     • Text Encoding Settings
     • Decoding subjects and articles
     • Encoding Messages for Sending
     • Encoding mappings
   • Opening URLs
     • Introduction to Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)
     • Opening Referenced Articles and Groups
     • Opening Email Addresses
     • Fetching Referenced Files
5. Advanced features
   • Multi-Threading
     • Multi-threading
     • Extracting binaries
     • Thread and connection limits
     • Efficient Use of Threads
     • Background Threads
   • Optimizing Group Opening
     • The Need for Speed
     • What determines which headers are downloaded?
     • The XOVER Command
     • Fetching Extra Headers on Demand
   • Group Settings
     • Introduction to Group Settings
     • When to use Group Settings
     • Creating and editing Group Settings
     • How Group Settings are Stored
   • Sharing Newsrc Files
     • Sharing Newsrc Files
     • Transferring Newsrc Files
     • UNIX Newsreaders and Unsubscribed Groups
   • Speech Recognition
     • Speech Recognition
     • Setting up Speech Recognition
     • Speech Commands
     • Troubleshooting
     • Further Information
   • MIME in News Articles
     • Introduction to MIME
     • Receiving MIME Messages
     • Sending Message with MIME
   • AppleScripting
     • TBD
6. The Interface
   • Keyboard and Keypad Shortcuts
     • Keyboard Shortcuts
     • Keypad Shortcuts
   • Working with Lists and Text
     • Working with Lists
     • Working with Text
   • Windows
     • About Window
     • Group Windows
     • Subject Windows
     • Article Windows
     • Message Windows
     • Filters Window
     • Text Windows
     • Help Windows
     • Tasks Window
     • Dialog Windows
   • Commands
     • Apple Menu
     • File Menu
     • Edit Menu
     • News Menu
     • Special Menu
     • Windows Menu
     • Help Menu
   • Preferences
     • Newsreading Options
     • Interface Options
     • Article Management
     • Article Windows
     • Subject Windows
     • Filtering Options
     • Fonts
     • Languages
     • Message Options
     • Saving Files
     • Viewing Binaries
     • Word Services
     • Speech Recognition
   • Saving Files
     • Saving User Group Lists
     • Saving Articles
     • Saving Messages
     • Saving Binaries
     • Exporting Data
   • Files
     • The MT-NewsWatcher Program File
     • User Group List Files
     • The MT-NewsWatcher Prefs File
     • News Server Groups Files
     • MT-NewsWatcher Database File
     • Article Index File
     • Filters File
     • Saved Articles
     • Saved Messages
7. Appendices
   • Frequently Asked Questions
   • Appendix A (Helper Programs)
   • Appendix B (Message Headers)
   • Appendices C-E