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<glossary id="glossary">
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>Glossary</title>
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<glossdiv>
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<title
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>A</title
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<glossentry id="gloss-article"
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<glossterm
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>Article</glossterm
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<glossdef
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>
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<para
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>An <glossterm
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>article</glossterm
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> in the sense of newspapers: special <glossterm
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>articles</glossterm
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> are, for example, followups; replies are not <glossterm
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>articles</glossterm
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> but Email.</para>
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</glossdef
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</glossentry
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<glossdiv
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<title
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>C</title
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<glossentry id="gloss-cancel">
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<glossterm
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>Cancelling</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para
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>To delete one of your articles from the newsserver: the newsreader generates a special control message to tell the server to delete this article.</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry id="gloss-crossposting">
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<glossterm
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>Crossposting</glossterm
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<glossdef>
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<para
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>The posting of an article in several newsgroups; this is very often disliked, because it disturbs the topic-oriented association of the newsgroups.</para>
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</glossdef
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<glossdiv
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>E</title>
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<glossentry id="gloss-expire">
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<glossterm
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>Expire</glossterm
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<glossdef
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<para
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><glossterm
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>Articles</glossterm
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> can not be held for eternity because of harddisk limits. Because of this there is usually a program called <application
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>expire</application
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> on most computer systems; this program deletes all articles which are older than a configured number of days. &knode; includes this functionality on its own.</para>
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</glossdef
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</glossentry
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<title
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>F</title
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<glossentry id="gloss-faq">
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<glossterm
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><acronym
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>FAQ</acronym
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></glossterm
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<glossdef>
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<para
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><acronym
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>FAQ</acronym
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> is the acronym for <quote
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>Frequently Asked Questions</quote
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>.</para>
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<glossentry id="gloss-follow-up">
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<glossterm
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>Followup</glossterm>
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<glossdef
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>
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<para
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>An <glossterm
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>article</glossterm
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> which is written as an answer to another <glossterm
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>article</glossterm
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>.</para>
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</glossdef
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</glossentry
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<glossdiv
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<title
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>G</title
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<glossentry id="gloss-gknsa">
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<glossterm
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><acronym
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>GNKSA</acronym
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></glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para
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><acronym
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>GNKSA</acronym
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> is a kind of seal-of-approval for newsreaders; you can get more information at <ulink url="http://www.gnksa.org"
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>http://www.gnksa.org</ulink
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>.</para>
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</glossdef
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</glossentry
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</glossdiv>
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<glossdiv
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>
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<title
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>H</title
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<glossentry id="gloss-header">
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<glossterm
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>Header</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para
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>The Header of an <glossterm
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>article</glossterm
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> contains information about the sender, the subject, and the newsgroup of the article.</para>
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</glossdef
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</glossentry
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<title
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>K</title
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<glossentry id="gloss-killfile">
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<glossterm
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>Killfile</glossterm
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<glossdef
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>
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<para
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>This is a functionality of a newsreader to hide <glossterm
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>articles</glossterm
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> of a determined sender or with certain contents.</para>
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</glossdef
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</glossentry
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</glossdiv
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>
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<title
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>M</title
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<glossentry id="gloss-message-id">
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<glossterm
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>Message-ID</glossterm
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<glossdef
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>
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<para
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>The <glossterm
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>Message-ID</glossterm
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> of an article is a clear mark for the newsserver to identify the article. A <glossterm
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>Message-ID</glossterm
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> should not be used twice in the whole usenet for about 2 years; wrong or double <glossterm
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>Message-IDs</glossterm
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> could cause problems when forwarding them and could overwrite other articles.</para>
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</glossdef
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</glossentry>
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</glossdiv
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<glossdiv
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>
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<title
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>N</title
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<glossentry id="gloss-newbie">
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<glossterm
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>Newbie</glossterm
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<glossdef
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<para
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>Somebody who is new somewhere, in relationship to usenet: somebody who is new to the newsgroup, or new to usenet in general.</para>
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</glossdef
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</glossentry
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<glossentry id="gloss-newsgroup">
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<glossterm
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>Newsgroup</glossterm
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<glossdef
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<para
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>A kind-of bulletin board in the usenet about a special topic or a group of topics. This is where you post your <glossterm
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>articles</glossterm
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>.</para>
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</glossdef
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</glossentry
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<glossentry id="gloss-newsreader"
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<glossterm
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>Newsreader</glossterm
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<glossdef
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<para
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>A program for reading and writing <glossterm
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>news</glossterm
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>.</para
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</glossdef
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</glossentry
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<glossentry id="gloss-nntp"
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> <glossterm>
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<acronym
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><acronym
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>NNTP</acronym
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></acronym
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</glossterm
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<glossdef>
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<para
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>Network News Transport Protocol; this is the protocol which defines how the articles in the usenet are spread.</para>
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</glossdef
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</glossentry
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</glossdiv
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<glossdiv
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<title
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>P</title
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<glossentry id="gloss-port">
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<glossterm
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>Port</glossterm>
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<glossdef
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<para
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>A kind-of address for the application to listen for data on and for connecting to another computer; the standard-port for the connection between the newsreader and the newsserver is 119.</para>
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</glossdef
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</glossentry
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<glossentry id="gloss-pgp-signature">
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<glossterm
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>PGP-Signature</glossterm
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<glossdef>
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<para
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>A digital signature; you can use it to determine whether the document has been changed since it was signed or if it is the original text from the author.</para>
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</glossdef
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</glossentry
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<glossentry id="gloss-posting">
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<glossterm
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>Posting</glossterm
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<glossdef
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<para
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>Either an <glossterm
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>article</glossterm
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> which is sent to usenet or the act of sending itself; you are <quote
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>posting</quote
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> an <glossterm
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>article</glossterm
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> into a newsgroup.</para>
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</glossdef
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</glossentry
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>Q</title
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<glossentry id="gloss-quoting">
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<glossterm
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>Quoting</glossterm
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<glossdef
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<para
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>This is the act of citing of an article to which you are answering: you quote the original <glossterm
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>article</glossterm
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> to make clear which passages of text your answer refers to.</para>
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</glossdef
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>R</title
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<glossentry id="gloss-reply">
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<glossterm
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>Reply</glossterm
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<glossdef
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<para
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>A <glossterm
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>reply</glossterm
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> is an answer to the author of an article by e-mail.</para>
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</glossdef
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<glossentry id="gloss-scoring">
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<glossterm
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>Scoring</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para
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>This is the valuation of an article or a thread.</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossentry>
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<glossentry id="gloss-signature">
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<glossterm
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>Signature</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para
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>A <glossterm
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>signature</glossterm
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> is a personal sign of the author which is attached at the end of the normal contents of the article; it is like a visiting card — very often there are e-mail addresses, a homepage <acronym
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>URL</acronym
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> or other personal data. The <glossterm
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>signature</glossterm
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> should not be longer than 4 lines. Note that the <glossterm
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>signature</glossterm
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> should not be mixed up with the <glossterm
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>PGP-signature</glossterm
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>.</para>
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<glossentry id="gloss-supersede">
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<glossterm
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>Supersede</glossterm>
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<glossdef>
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<para
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>This is the overwriting of an existing article: the newsreader generates a special article with a control message in the header which tells the newsserver to overwrite the existing article with this one.</para>
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</glossdef>
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</glossary>
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