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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>