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<title>To create a live bookmark in Firefox:</title>
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<step performance="required">
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<para>Open the Firefox Web browser. On the <emphasis
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role="strong">Bookmarks</emphasis> menu, click <emphasis
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role="strong">Organise Bookmarks</emphasis>.</para>
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<para>The <emphasis role="strong">Bookmarks Manager</emphasis> window
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will be displayed.</para>
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<title>Organising Bookmarks</title>
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<step performance="required">
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<para>On the <emphasis role="strong">File</emphasis> menu, click
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<emphasis role="strong">New Live Bookmark</emphasis>. The <emphasis
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role="strong">Properties for New Bookmark</emphasis> dialogue box will
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<title>Adding Live Bookmarks</title>
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<imagedata fileref="images/Lesson04_images_015.png" format="PNG"
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<step performance="required">
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<para>In the <emphasis role="strong">Name</emphasis> box, type the
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name you want to give to the feed. Make sure that the name reflects
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the contents of the Web site and includes enough information to
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uniquely identify the data file. Type the feed location-the URL of the
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feed in the <emphasis role="strong">Feed Location</emphasis> box and
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the description of the feed in the <emphasis
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role="strong">Description</emphasis> box. If you want, you can skip
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giving the description, though these can be used to categorise various
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feeds under groups. Click <emphasis role="strong">OK</emphasis> and
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close the <emphasis role="strong">Bookmarks Manager</emphasis> window.
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This sets the bookmark.</para>
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<title>Viewing Bookmark Properties</title>
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<step performance="required">
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<para>In the Firefox Web browser, on the <emphasis
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role="strong">Bookmarks</emphasis> menu, point to <emphasis
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role="strong">New Live Bookmark</emphasis>. This displays the list of
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feeds, their respective locations and description. To locate the one
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you are looking for, you can sort this list on name, location or
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description. Just click the one you want to quickly browse through. It
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opens in the Mozilla Firefox window.</para>
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<title>To create a bookmark in Firefox:</title>
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<step performance="required">
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<para>Open the Firefox Web browser. On the <emphasis role="strong">Bookmarks</emphasis> menu, click on <emphasis role="strong">Bookmark this page</emphasis>.</para>
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<step performance="required">
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<para>The Bookmarks dialog box will appear. Select a location to save the new bookmark and add any tags (keywords). </para>
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<step performance="required">
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<para>Click <emphasis role="strong">Done</emphasis> to save your bookmark.</para>
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<para>To sort your bookmarks and create new folders, or categories, select <emphasis role="strong">Organize Bookmarks</emphasis> from the <emphasis role="strong">Bookmarks</emphasis> menu.</para>
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<title>Accessing News</title>
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<para>News can be retrieved from the Internet in different ways. Using
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Usenet and RSS for access is covered below.</para>
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<para>Newsgroups are online notice boards where people post comments and
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discuss subjects of mutual interest. They are technically distinct from,
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but functionally similar to discussion forums on the World Wide Web.
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Anyone can participate in the discussion and post thoughts. At the rate at
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which newsgroups are growing, it is safe to say that there are groups
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covering most subjects imaginable; from computers to social issues, pet
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advice, literature and science, job postings and housing to rent etc. It
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is a fast and easy way to communicate, share views and advertise to people
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all over the world. Newsreaders are the applications used to access
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<para>USEr NETwork (Usenet) is the main source of newsgroups and
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newsfeeds. It is an Internet discussion system where people read and post
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e-mail-like messages called posts to one or more of a number of
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<para>To join a newsgroup, you create a subscribed list and your
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newsreader stores the information. You will receive alerts when people
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have posted new listings and when you check to read the latest update,
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there will be a posting and bunch of messages from several people. You
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will see something that looks similar to your e-mail inbox. You can decide
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whether to reply to the newsgroup, the author or to both. Some people
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prefer not to constantly receive email messages and log in from time to
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time to see the latest updates. The news server posts do expire after a
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certain length of time, as determined by the person running the
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<para>There are two types of newsreaders, online and offline. The online
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newsreader downloads just the message headers, and you see what looks like
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a mailbox. The messages themselves however, are not on your machine. As
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you access a particular message, the newsreader retrieves it from the
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server. When you are done reading a message, it is not stored on your
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machine, unless you save it specifically. Offline newsreaders, on the
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other hand, connect to the server, download all new messages for the
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newsgroups to which you are subscribed, upload any posts you wrote since
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the last time you connected to the server, and then disconnect. You can
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then read the messages as you wish, composing replies and new posts to be
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uploaded next time you choose to connect.</para>
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<para>Many news related Web sites do offer news feeds that allow you to
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see when Web sites have added new content. You can get the latest
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headlines and video in one place, as soon as it is published, without
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having to visit the Websites you have taken the feed from. Feeds, also
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known as Really Simple Syndication (RSS), are just Web pages.</para>
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<para>In this section we will cover two types of Newsreaders, Linux Feed
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Reader (Liferea) for news feeds and Thunderbird for Usenet news.</para>
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<title>Using an RSS feed reader</title>
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<para>News feeds allow you to see when a Web site has added new content. You can get the latest headlines as soon as it is published without having to visit the website. These news feeds are known as RSS or Really Simple Syndication.</para>
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<title>Liferea Newsreader</title>
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authentication or other feed specific options.</para>
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<title>Thunderbird</title>
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<title>To use Thunderbird to access news groups, perform the following
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<step performance="required">
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<para>When you open Thunderbird for the first time, the <emphasis
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role="strong">Account Wizard</emphasis> helps you to configure an
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account. On the <emphasis role="strong">New Account Setup</emphasis>
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page, select <emphasis role="strong">Newsgroup account</emphasis>
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option and click <emphasis role="strong">Next</emphasis>. This page
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informs you about how this wizard will collect information to set up
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a mail or a newsgroup account. You can also contact the system
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administrator or the ISP for information.</para>
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<title>Creating Thunderbird Newsgroup Account</title>
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<imagedata fileref="images/Lesson04_images_024.png"
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format="PNG" width="9.5cm" />
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<step performance="required">
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<para>On the <emphasis role="strong">Identity</emphasis> page, in
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the <emphasis role="strong">Your Name</emphasis> box, type your name
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that you would like to use when sending messages and in the
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<emphasis role="strong">Email Address</emphasis> box, type the
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e-mail address where you would like others to send you e-mail
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messages. Click <emphasis role="strong">Next</emphasis>.</para>
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<title>Creating Account Identity</title>
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<imagedata fileref="images/Lesson04_images_025.png"
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format="PNG" width="9.5cm" />
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<step performance="required">
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<para>On the <emphasis role="strong">Server Information</emphasis>
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page, type the name of your newsgroup server in the <emphasis
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role="strong">Newsgroup Server</emphasis> box. You can also type the
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server address here instead of the server name. Then, click
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<emphasis role="strong">Next</emphasis>. This server name will
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connect you to different newsgroups.</para>
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<title>Providing Newsgroup Server Information</title>
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<imagedata fileref="images/Lesson04_images_026.png"
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format="PNG" width="9cm" />
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<step performance="required">
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<para>On the <emphasis role="strong">Account Name</emphasis>
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dialogue box, type the account name in the <emphasis
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role="strong">Account Name</emphasis> box. This name is for your
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reference only. Click <emphasis
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role="strong">Next</emphasis>.</para>
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<title>Specifying Account Name</title>
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<imagedata fileref="images/Lesson04_images_027.png"
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format="PNG" vendor="" width="9cm" />
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<step performance="required">
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<para>You have completed setting up a newsgroup account. Make sure
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you verify the information before you exit this wizard. Navigate
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through the pages using the <emphasis role="strong">Next</emphasis>
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and <emphasis role="strong">Back</emphasis> buttons and make
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appropriate changes, if required. Otherwise, click <emphasis
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role="strong">Finish</emphasis> to save the settings. The <emphasis
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role="strong">News Account-Thunderbird window</emphasis> will be
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<title>Account Information</title>
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<imagedata fileref="images/Lesson04_images_028.png"
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format="PNG" width="9cm" />
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<step performance="required">
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<para>In the <emphasis role="strong">News
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Account-Thunderbird</emphasis> window, click <emphasis
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role="strong">Manage newsgroup subscriptions</emphasis> to subscribe
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to a newsgroup. The <emphasis role="strong">Subscribe</emphasis>
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dialogue box will be displayed.</para>
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<title>Subscribing to a Newsgroup</title>
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<imagedata fileref="images/Lesson04_images_029.png"
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format="PNG" width="14cm" />
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<step performance="required">
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<para>Several newsgroups will be downloaded from the server address
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you mentioned during the configuration process.</para>
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<title>Viewing the Download Process</title>
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<imagedata fileref="images/Lesson04_images_030.png"
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format="PNG" width="10.5cm" />
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<step performance="required">
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<para>If you want to subscribe to a newsgroup on a specific subject,
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you can search for your search criteria. Type the search term in
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<emphasis role="strong">the Show items that contain</emphasis> box.
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The newsgroups related to the search term will be displayed in the
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<emphasis role="strong">Select the newsgroups to subscribe to
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list</emphasis>. Select any newsgroup from the displayed list and
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click <emphasis role="strong">Subscribe</emphasis>. Click <emphasis
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role="strong">OK</emphasis> to close the <emphasis
1048
role="strong">Subscribe</emphasis> dialogue box.</para>
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<title>Selecting the Newsgroup to Subscribe</title>
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<imagedata fileref="images/Lesson04_images_031.png"
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format="PNG" width="10.5cm" />
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<step performance="required">
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<para>After the subscription is completed, you will start receiving
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newsletters from the subscribed newsgroup. The following graphic
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shows the newsgroup and related e-mail messages in the Thunderbird
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<title>Viewing Newsgroup E-mails</title>
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<imagedata fileref="images/Lesson04_images_032.png"
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format="PNG" width="15cm" />
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<para>When you open Thunderbird to read news letters, there will be
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a bunch of messages from several people. You can read these just
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like e-mail messages. The difference is that the message is
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addressed to the group you were interested in and not just to you.
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Similarly, if you reply to a message you are reading, you need to
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decide whether to reply to the newsgroup, to the author or to
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<title>Nice to Know:</title>
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<para>Pan Newsreader is another news reader that works with
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Usenet. It is an open source newsgroup client, which is available
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for various platforms. You can install Pan Newsreader from
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Synaptic Package Manager on Ubuntu.</para>
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<title>Lab Exercise</title>
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<title>Exercise 1</title>
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<para>You are using the Firefox Web browser to view several interesting
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Web sites. You come across a Web site <ulink
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url="http://www.stevepavlina.com">http://www.stevepavlina.com</ulink>.
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You want to save the URL for future referencing. Your friend suggests
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creating a bookmark so that the next time when you are online, you can
2782
click the link that will directly take you to that Web page.</para>
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<title>In Mozilla Firefox, create a live bookmark.</title>
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<step performance="required">
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<para>Open the Firefox Web browser. On the <emphasis
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role="strong">Bookmarks</emphasis> menu, click <emphasis
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role="strong">Organise Bookmarks</emphasis>. The <emphasis
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role="strong">Bookmarks Manager</emphasis> window is displayed.</para>
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<step performance="required">
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<para>In the <emphasis role="strong">Bookmarks Manager</emphasis>
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window, on the <emphasis role="strong">File</emphasis> menu, click
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<emphasis role="strong">New Live Bookmark</emphasis>. The <emphasis
2799
role="strong">Properties for New Live Bookmark</emphasis> dialogue box
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<step performance="required">
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<para>In the <emphasis role="strong">Properties for New Live
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Bookmark</emphasis> dialogue box, type <emphasis
2806
role="strong">Personal</emphasis> <emphasis
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role="strong">Development</emphasis> in the <emphasis
2808
role="strong">Name</emphasis> box, <ulink
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url="http://www.stevepavlina.com">http://www.stevepavlina.com</ulink>
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in the <emphasis role="strong">Feed Location</emphasis> box and
2811
<emphasis role="strong">My live bookmark</emphasis> in the <emphasis
2812
role="strong">Description</emphasis> box. Click <emphasis
2813
role="strong">OK</emphasis> and close the <emphasis
2814
role="strong">Bookmarks Manager</emphasis> window.</para>
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<step performance="required">
2818
<para>In the Firefox Web browser, on the <emphasis
2819
role="strong">Bookmarks</emphasis> menu, point to <emphasis
2820
role="strong">My live bookmark</emphasis>. The list of feeds
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<title>Exercise 2</title>
2828
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<para>You use Liferea as a newsreader on your computer. Recently, you
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met a friend who informed you about a Web site that offers RSS feeds,