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  TABLE OF CONTENTS

  0.0 Preliminaries
      0.1 Getting the Latest Version of this FAQ
          0.1.1 Hypertext
          0.1.2 Plain Text
      0.2 Notation
  1.0 Introduction to nn
      1.1 Why Use nn? A Comparison of Unix News Readers
      1.2 Essential nn Commands
      1.3 Getting nn Help
  2.0 Your First Time
      2.1 Starting nn
      2.2 Going to a Newsgroup and Subscribing
      2.3 Menu Mode: Selecting Articles to Read
      2.4 Show Mode: Reading Selected Articles
      2.5 Leaving a Newsgroup
      2.6 Quitting
  3.0 Your Second Time
  4.0 Customizing nn
      4.1 Strategy: Plug and Play
      4.2 Setting Your Editor
          4.2.1 C-Compatible Shells
          4.2.2 Bourne-Compatible Shells
      4.3 Your Subscription List
          4.3.1 Your seq File
          4.3.2 Your .newsrc File
                4.3.2.1 Strategy: Subscribe to All Newsgroups
          4.3.3 Finding Newsgroups You're Interested In
      4.4 Your init File
          4.4.1 Variable Settings
          4.4.2 Key Mappings
          4.4.3 Host-Specific Settings
  5.0 Efficiently Reading Lots of News
      5.1 Killing and Auto-Selecting Subjects and Authors
      5.2 Quick Selecting Subjects
      5.3 Select, Read, Flag, Kill, Next Newsgroup
      5.4 Moving Between Newsgroups
          5.4.1 Going to a Newsgroup *Temporarily*
          5.4.2 Jumping to a Newsgroup
                5.4.2.1 Jump Macro
      5.5 Reading an Article That's in Digest Format
  6.0 Virtual Newsgroups: Creating a Custom Menu of Articles
      6.1 Presenting All Articles in a Newsgroup
      6.2 Searching For Subjects or Authors
          6.2.1 Within a Newsgroup
                6.2.1.1 Macro to Show All Articles with Current Subject
          6.2.2 Across Newsgroups
      6.3 Full Text Searching
          6.3.1 Across Articles in a Newsgroup
          6.3.2 Within One Article
  7.0 Saving Articles
      7.1 Strategy: Mail & News Folders Are Essentially the Same
      7.2 Saving an Individual Article
          7.2.1 Saving an Article That's in Digest Format
      7.3 Saving a Group of Articles
      7.4 Folder Management
          7.4.1 Reading a Folder
          7.4.2 Moving and Deleting Messages in a Folder
          7.4.3 Linking Your Mail and News Directories
  8.0 Posting
      8.1 Netiquette
          8.1.1 First Read the FAQs
          8.1.2 Some DOs and DON'Ts
      8.2 Your First Posts Should Be Test Posts
          8.2.1 Newsgroups for Testing
          8.2.2 Test 1: Following Up to an Article
          8.2.3 Test 2: Starting a Thread
          8.2.4 Test 3: Replying to an Article in Mail
          8.2.5 Test 4: Canceling an Article
      8.3 Responding to a Message
          8.3.1 Strategy: Flag it, Continue Reading, Then Respond
          8.3.2 To Mail or Post Your Response?
          8.3.3 Included Text
          8.3.4 Headers
                8.3.4.1 Newsgroups and Followup-To Headers
                8.3.4.2 Subject and References Headers
      8.4 Starting a Thread
      8.5 Your Signature
      8.6 Canceling an Article You Posted
  9.0 Glossary
 10.0 Contributors
      10.1 Acknowledgements
      10.2 If You'd Like to Contribute
 11.0 Copyright Notice

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