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From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: The News-How to Post?
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Date: 14 Jun 91 06:49:01 GMT
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In article <6610@crystal9.UUCP> derosa@motcid.UUCP (John DeRosa) writes:
> How do you post a new article in "TheNews"?
> 
> It would appear that you cannot post to a 
> group that has no mail.  That is, the 
> "post new" menu item is greyed out unless
> you are inside the group.
> 
> Also, how can you read old (already read)
> articles?  The "unread" command is greyed
> out unless you are in the group.

You have to be in the group in order to post a new message, but you can go into  
the group even if there is no new mail in it.  Just double-click on the group  
name, and a window will come up to show you all the headers of new articles.   
Now, that window *will* be empty since there are no new articles, but at that  
point you just select "Post New..." from the menu.

The second question is a bit trickier.  I haven't read the manual for TheNews  
yet, but I think the only way you can do that is to change your preferences  
settings.  Turn off the "only show unread articles" option, click "Okay"  
(instead of "Save"), and then double-click on the group you want to see.   
You'll get the headers for all articles which are in that group.

Hmm, I guess the first one might require a preferences change too, depending on  
how your preferences are set.  If you have the "only show groups with unread  
articles" preference on, you'll have to turn that off and re-open your  
newsgroup file.  Then the newsgroup will be listed even though it has no new  
articles.

I always run with that option off, though.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn   = gad@rpi.edu  or  gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
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