Introduction


BeInformed is a newsclient for BeOS with a simple and intuitive GUI. It takes advantage of Be's multithreaded environment and of the query mechanism built into the Be File System. This screenshot shows a typical BeInformed session:

Screenshot

To read the articles of a specific newsgroup (or filter), select it in the Subscribed List . The articles are displayed in the Article List with author, subject and a representation of their threads. Selecting a specific article in the Article List displays the full article text in the Article Reader.

Headers

It is possible to download just the headers of articles. In order to download the full body texts on the next connect, the headers of the articles of interested have to be marked. Headers are displayed with the number of lines of the body text, making it easier to decide which articles to download and which to skip.

Hosts

You can have more than one host at one time. Just add them to the list of all hosts. To retrieve a list of all possible newsgroups from a specific news-server, use the right mouse button to access this function through the contextmenu.

Posting, FollowUp and Reply

You can post a new article to one or more newsgroups, answer to an article in the newsgroup (FollowUp) or reply by eMail.
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