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+<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>