<glossary id="glossary">
<title
>Glossary</title>

<glossdiv>
<title
>A</title
> 
<glossentry id="gloss-article"
> 
<glossterm
>Article</glossterm
> 
<glossdef
> 
<para
>An <glossterm
>article</glossterm
> in the sense of newspapers: special <glossterm
>articles</glossterm
> are, for example, followups; replies are not <glossterm
>articles</glossterm
> but Email.</para>
</glossdef
> 
</glossentry
> 
</glossdiv>

<glossdiv
> 
<title
>C</title
> 

<glossentry id="gloss-cancel">
<glossterm
>Cancelling</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para
>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>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>

<glossentry id="gloss-crossposting">
<glossterm
>Crossposting</glossterm
> 
<glossdef>
<para
>The posting of an article in several newsgroups; this is very often disliked, because it disturbs the topic-oriented association of the newsgroups.</para>
</glossdef
> 
</glossentry
> 
</glossdiv
> 

<glossdiv
> 
<title
>E</title>

<glossentry id="gloss-expire">
<glossterm
>Expire</glossterm
> 
<glossdef
> 
<para
><glossterm
>Articles</glossterm
> can not be held for eternity because of harddisk limits. Because of this there is usually a program called <application
>expire</application
> 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>
</glossdef
> 
</glossentry
> 
</glossdiv
> 

<glossdiv
> 
<title
>F</title
> 
<glossentry id="gloss-faq">
<glossterm
><acronym
>FAQ</acronym
></glossterm
> 
<glossdef>
<para
><acronym
>FAQ</acronym
> is the acronym for <quote
>Frequently Asked Questions</quote
>.</para>
</glossdef
> 
</glossentry
> 

<glossentry id="gloss-follow-up">
<glossterm
>Followup</glossterm>
<glossdef
> 
<para
>An <glossterm
>article</glossterm
> which is written as an answer to another <glossterm
>article</glossterm
>.</para>
</glossdef
> 
</glossentry
> 
</glossdiv
> 

<glossdiv
> 
<title
>G</title
> 
<glossentry id="gloss-gknsa">
<glossterm
><acronym
>GNKSA</acronym
></glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para
><acronym
>GNKSA</acronym
> is a kind of seal-of-approval for newsreaders; you can get more information at <ulink url="http://www.gnksa.org"
>http://www.gnksa.org</ulink
>.</para>
</glossdef
> 
</glossentry
> 
</glossdiv>

<glossdiv
> 
<title
>H</title
> 
<glossentry id="gloss-header">
<glossterm
>Header</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para
>The Header of an <glossterm
>article</glossterm
> contains information about the sender, the subject, and the newsgroup of the article.</para>
</glossdef
> 
</glossentry
> 
</glossdiv
> 

<glossdiv
> 
<title
>K</title
> 
<glossentry id="gloss-killfile">
<glossterm
>Killfile</glossterm
> 
<glossdef
> 
<para
>This is a functionality of a newsreader to hide <glossterm
>articles</glossterm
> of a determined sender or with certain contents.</para>
</glossdef
> 
</glossentry
> 
</glossdiv
> 

<glossdiv
> 
<title
>M</title
> 
<glossentry id="gloss-message-id">
<glossterm
>Message-ID</glossterm
> 
<glossdef
> 

<para
>The <glossterm
>Message-ID</glossterm
> of an article is a clear mark for the newsserver to identify the article. A <glossterm
>Message-ID</glossterm
> should not be used twice in the whole usenet for about 2 years; wrong or double <glossterm
>Message-IDs</glossterm
> could cause problems when forwarding them and could overwrite other articles.</para>
</glossdef
> 
</glossentry>
</glossdiv
> 

<glossdiv
> 
<title
>N</title
> 
<glossentry id="gloss-newbie">
<glossterm
>Newbie</glossterm
> 
<glossdef
> 
<para
>Somebody who is new somewhere, in relationship to usenet: somebody who is new to the newsgroup, or new to usenet in general.</para>
</glossdef
> 
</glossentry
> 

<glossentry id="gloss-newsgroup">
<glossterm
>Newsgroup</glossterm
> 
<glossdef
> 
<para
>A kind-of bulletin board in the usenet about a special topic or a group of topics. This is where you post your <glossterm
>articles</glossterm
>.</para>
</glossdef
> 
</glossentry
> 

<glossentry id="gloss-newsreader"
> 
<glossterm
>Newsreader</glossterm
> 
<glossdef
> 
<para
>A program for reading and writing <glossterm
>news</glossterm
>.</para
> 
</glossdef
> 
</glossentry
> 

<glossentry id="gloss-nntp"
> <glossterm>
<acronym
><acronym
>NNTP</acronym
></acronym
> 
</glossterm
> 
<glossdef>
<para
>Network News Transport Protocol; this is the protocol which defines how the articles in the usenet are spread.</para>
</glossdef
> 
</glossentry
> 
</glossdiv
> 

<glossdiv
> 
<title
>P</title
> 

<glossentry id="gloss-port">
<glossterm
>Port</glossterm>
<glossdef
> 
<para
>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>
</glossdef
> 
</glossentry
> 

<glossentry id="gloss-pgp-signature">
<glossterm
>PGP-Signature</glossterm
> 
<glossdef>
<para
>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>
</glossdef
> 
</glossentry
> 

<glossentry id="gloss-posting">
<glossterm
>Posting</glossterm
> 
<glossdef
> 
<para
>Either an <glossterm
>article</glossterm
> which is sent to usenet or the act of sending itself; you are <quote
>posting</quote
> an <glossterm
>article</glossterm
> into a newsgroup.</para>
</glossdef
> 
</glossentry
> 
</glossdiv
> 

<glossdiv
> 
<title
>Q</title
> 

<glossentry id="gloss-quoting">
<glossterm
>Quoting</glossterm
> 
<glossdef
> 
<para
>This is the act of citing of an article to which you are answering: you quote the original <glossterm
>article</glossterm
> to make clear which passages of text your answer refers to.</para>
</glossdef
> 
</glossentry
> 
</glossdiv
> 

<glossdiv
> 
<title
>R</title
> 
<glossentry id="gloss-reply">

<glossterm
>Reply</glossterm
> 
<glossdef
> 
<para
>A <glossterm
>reply</glossterm
> is an answer to the author of an article by e-mail.</para>
</glossdef
> 
</glossentry
> 
</glossdiv
> 

<glossdiv
> 
<title
>S</title
> 

<glossentry id="gloss-scoring">
<glossterm
>Scoring</glossterm>
<glossdef>

<para
>This is the valuation of an article or a thread.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>

<glossentry id="gloss-signature">
<glossterm
>Signature</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para
>A <glossterm
>signature</glossterm
> 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 &mdash; very often there are e-mail addresses, a homepage <acronym
>URL</acronym
> or other personal data. The <glossterm
>signature</glossterm
> should not be longer than 4 lines. Note that the <glossterm
>signature</glossterm
> should not be mixed up with the <glossterm
>PGP-signature</glossterm
>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>

<glossentry id="gloss-supersede">
<glossterm
>Supersede</glossterm>
<glossdef>

<para
>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>

</glossdef>
</glossentry>
</glossdiv>

</glossary>