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THE FIRST TIME PART THREE
POSTING PREFERENCES


Next is POSTING PREFERENCES under the Options menu.
This can get a tad confusing, so re-read it as often as needed.





General

You will want to leave the defaults in this section until you are more comfortable with the program.

Refer to the included screen capture to get a better idea of what this looks like.

Line length: 70

Word wrap quoted-printable messages: checked

Validate e mail address: checked

Require that local address be in Address book: Unchecked


Quoting

Include original text in follow ups and replies: checked

Prefix for quoted lines:  >
Note: This can be whatever you like, try a few different characters out to see what is easier for you to read, and the recipient may thank you.


This next section is not as it would appear to be, this section deals with what will appear in the Subject field of posted articles and e mails.

Quoted:

This is the string that will appear in the Subject field of your forwarded message when you use the Forward Quoted command on the Post menu.  The default is "[fwd] %subject%".  The "[fwd]" part of the string indicates that it is a forwarded message.  You can change this to anything you like (e.g., "forwarded msg:").  You should not change the "%subject%" part of the string, however.  It is required to automatically pull in the subject of the message being forwarded.

Unquoted:

This is the string that will appear in the Subject field of your forwarded message when you use the Forward Unquoted command on the Post menu.  The default is "[fwd] %subject%".  The "[fwd]" part of the string indicates that it is a forwarded message.  You can change this to anything you like (e.g., "forwarded msg:").  You should not change the "%subject%" part of the string, however.  It is required to automatically pull in the subject of the message being forwarded.

Verbatim

This is the string that will appear in the Subject field of your forwarded message when you use the Forward Verbatim command on the Post menu.  The default is "[fwd] %subject%".  The "[fwd]" part of the string indicates that it is a forwarded message.  You can change this to anything you like (e.g., "forwarded msg:").  You should not change the "%subject%" part of the string, however.  It is required to automatically pull in the subject of the message being forwarded.


Introductions

Use this dialog box to define how the introductory text above quoted lines will look.  In other words, when you send an e mail or post an article to Usenet, and include quoted text, this line will appear each time BEFORE the quoted text.

Followup usenet message:

Enter the text to appear just above quoted lines when replying to a Usenet message with another Usenet message.

Email reply to usenet message:

Enter the text to appear just above quoted lines when replying to a Usenet message with an email message.

Forwarded usenet message:

Enter the text to appear just above quoted lines when forwarding a Usenet message to someone via email.

Reply to email:

Enter the text to appear just above quoted lines when replying to an email message with another email message.

Forwarded email:

Enter the text to appear just above quoted lines when forwarding an email message to someone via email.


The following will help spell out how exactly to do this effectively.


When you reply to a message, it's common practice on the Internet to include some of the text from the original message in the reply.  It is also common practice to precede the original text with a line such as "Dan The Peeperman wrote:"  You define this introduction string on the General tab of the Posting Preferences dialog box.

The following table describes the different fields you can include in introduction strings.  When you include a field in an introduction string, Agent automatically replaces that field with its value from the original message.  To include a field in a string, enclose it within percent signs (e.g., %from%). To include the percent sign in the string, enter two of them next to each other (e.g., %%).

Field	Description

Date:	The date the message was sent.

Reply-To:  Where the author wanted replies sent.

From:	The email address of the person who posted the message. 
 
  Note: When you use %from%, Agent includes the entire email address of the person who posted the message.

Sender:	The sender of the message.

  Note: This may be a different person than the one in the From field if the sender wasn't the one who actually posted the message.

Full-Name:  The full name of the author, extracted from the From field.

Subject:  The brief description of the message.

Message-Id:  The message's unique message ID.

Newsgroups:  The newsgroup to which this message was posted.  If the message was posted to more than one group, the current group is used.

Followup-To:  The newsgroups where the sender of the message wants follow-up messages posted.

Expires:  The date the message is scheduled to expire.

References:  For follow-up messages, the message IDs of the messages to which this message refers.

Organization:  The author's organization.

Keywords:  Optional keywords included by the author to help categorize the message.

Summary:  A summary description of the message.

Lines:	The number of lines in the message.

You may also use the following to represent special characters:

Character	Description

\n	The newline character.
\t	A tab.

\\	The backslash character itself.


Spelling

This last section is self explanatory.  Note that you must have a spelling dictionary installed in order to use this feature.
