The KNode manual

Version 0.3.2
Last updated: 15/10/2000

Stephan Johach

lucardus@onlinehome.de

Developer and maintainer: Christian Thurner

Developer: Christian Gebauer

Developer: Dirk Mueller

Developer: Matthias Kalle Dalheimer

Documentation translator and maintainer of the English documentation: Rainer Endres

Documentation translator: Frerich Raabe

Documentation translator: Oliver Henning

Documentation translator: Martin Piskernig

Reviewer: Lauri Watts

Copyright © 2000 by Stephan Johach

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

KNode is an easy-to-use newsreader.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Notes about updating an older version of KNode

2.1. Update from version 0.1.x

3. Installation

3.1. Where do I get KNode ?
3.2. Requirements
3.3. Compile and install
3.4. Configuration

4. Working with KNode

4.1. The first start

4.1.1. Personal settings
4.1.2. Configuring the news account
4.1.3. Setting up the mail account
4.1.4. General News Settings
4.1.5. Customize displayed article headers
4.1.6. Defining the appearance
4.1.7. Filter settings
4.1.8. Settings for publishing articles
4.1.9. The Composer settings
4.1.10. The article cleanup settings.

4.2. Working with newsgroups

4.2.1. Fetching the group-list from the newsserver
4.2.2. Fetching and reading Articles
4.2.3. Writing and replying to articles

4.3. The advanced KNode features

4.3.1. Defining and using Filter
4.3.2. The Composer
4.3.3. Searching for articles
4.3.4. Supersede and cancel articles
4.3.5. Score, watch, ignore
4.3.6. Group identities
4.3.7. Managing multiple news accounts

5. Command reference

5.1. The main KNode window

5.1.1. The menu File
5.1.2. The Edit menu
5.1.3. The View menu
5.1.4. The Go menu
5.1.5. The Account menu
5.1.6. The Group menu
5.1.7. The menu Article
5.1.8. The Settings menu
5.1.9. The Help menu

5.2. The composor menus.

5.2.1. The File menu
5.2.2. The Edit Menu
5.2.3. The Attach Menu
5.2.4. The Settings Menu
5.2.5. The Help menu

6. Questions and Answers

7. A journey in the World of Newsgroups

7.1. What are ...

7.1.1. ... online-readers?
7.1.2. ... offline-readers?
7.1.3. ... newsgroups?
7.1.4. ... news?
7.1.5. ... threads?

7.2. Online Manners

7.3. The Usenet language

7.3.1. RTFM and other typos
7.3.2. Smile!
7.3.3. PLONK!
7.3.4. Often used acronyms

8. Further Information

8.1. Informative Newsgroups
8.2. Test Groups
8.3. Informative technical articles

9. Credits and License

List of Tables
7-1. Acronyms on Usenet

List of Examples
4-1. Show the newsreader used for a post in the article window
4-2. Message-ID
4-3. An example

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