# Reading News

To read news, choose an interesting newsgroup from the main group-list window and double-click on it. A group article-list window will be opened. If there are more articles in this group than you have specified as your maximum-retrieve threshold (See Configure Article-List), then you will be prompted for the number of articles headers you wish to retrieve.

Wait for a moment while the article-list for your selected newsgroup is retrieved. Now you will see a list of article lines. For each article, you see the article number the author, date, and subject. Choose an article with an interesting subject, and double-click on it. An article view window will be opened.

Wait for a moment while the article is retrieved. Now you can read the article. If it appears to contain encoded data which you are interested in, you can decode it by selecting Decode from the Article File menu or from the toolbar. You can save the contents of the article by selecting Save or Save As... from the Article File menu or from the toolbar. To reply to the author of the message by mail, select Compose Mail from the Respond menu or toolbar. To post a followup to the newsgroup, select Followup from the Respond menu or toolbar.. To forward the article to an E-mail address, select Forward from the Respond menu or toolbar.

Now return to the group-list. To compose a new article, select the New Article option from the Articles menu or toolbar. If you see a group of articles which appear to be a multipart encoded message (i.e. with subjects like "fun.zip 1/2" and "fun.zip 2/2"), select both articles (for selection options, see Configure Article-List), and choose Decode Selected Articles from the Articles menu or toolbar. See Decoding.