NCSA Mosaic for MS Windows User Guide: Customizing


News
Use the News dialog box to personalize your news set-up.

The Display Options box offers three ways of handling news. Select one:
- Thread View radio button
- displays the top level news articles and not the replies. To read the replies, press n (for next) on the keyboard.
- Group View radio button
- displays the top level news articles and all replies as a single sublevel
- Tree View radio button
- displays the top level and all replies in hierarchical format. Replies to replies are represented at different levels of the hierarchy.
The rest of this block is used to select your server and the number of articles to be displayed at any time.
- Load All Articles
loads all unread articles in a news group when checked
- Number of articles to load:
- retrieves this number of news article titles from the news server. (The number entered here is not referenced when Load All Articles is checked.)
- Number of articles to display:
- displays this number of articles (10-100) in the Document View window
- NNTP Server:
- displays the name of your news server
- .sig file
- displays the name of the file containing your signature information. The information in this ASCII file is appended to any newsgroup posting or article reply you make. The file extension is .sig (for signature).
- Show Toolbar
- displays a news-specific toolbar when you are reading news; see "News Toolbar" on page 5-19
The Subscription button, which lets you subscribe and unsubscribe to different newsgroups, opens a new menu that is described below (see "Tables" on page 4-18).
Subscription Window

- Search
- enter the name or prefix of a newsgroup. If the newsgroup is available in the list, Mosaic displays the newsgroup(s) after you stop typing.
- Available:
- displays the names of newsgroups available from your news (NNTP) server
- Subscribed:
- displays the list of the newsgroups you selected
- Subscribe button
- adds selected newsgroups from the Available field to the Subscribed field. Select a newsgroup from the Available list, and click Subscribe to move the newsgroup to the Subscribed list.
- Unsubscribe button
- deletes selected newsgroups from the Subscribed list and moves it to the Available list. Select a newsgroup from the Subscribed list, and click Unsubscribe to move the newsgroup to the Available list.
- Update button
- updates your list of available newsgroups from your news server
- Stop Update button
- terminates the update request (available only during an update)
- Select All button
- selects every entry in either the Available or Subscribed field
- Unselect All button
- deselects the entries that were previously selected

