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Using newsfeeds and newsgroups

Newsfeeds are Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as news headlines, blog entries or podcasts. They are a great way to ensure you are kept up-to-date regularly, as they inform you when new content or updates have been posted on sites you subscribe to. Opera Mail includes support for multiple news servers, offline reading, and provides easy separation between news and e-mail.

Use RSS and Atom newsfeeds

Opera can act as an aggregator for Atom, RDF Site Summary and Really Simple Syndication newsfeeds. In Opera Mail, newsfeeds are stored on your computer so you can read them later, even when you're offline.

Subscribe to a newsfeed

Some Web pages offer newsfeeds using a link to the feed. Some pages use automatic feed discovery, and tell Opera that a newsfeed is available automatically. When Opera loads one of these pages, an RSS button shows in the right side of the address field. Click this button to subscribe to the newsfeed.

When you click a link or RSS button to a newsfeed in Opera, a preview to the newsfeed displays, to give you an idea of the information the newsfeed provides. If you decide to subscribe, simply click Subscribe and it is automatically recognized and added to your newsfeed list.

Once you have subscribed to a newsfeed:

• the Feeds menu displays on the Opera menu bar, which you can use to read and manage newsfeeds. You can also manually add other newsfeeds using Feeds > Manage newsfeeds.
• the Feeds header displays in the Mail panel, with each newsfeed listed under it. When newsfeeds are received, the newsfeed displays in bold with the number of feeds received.

Select a newsfeed

When you select a newsfeed from the Feeds header in the Mail panel or the Feeds menu, it opens a message view showing the items in the newsfeed. Each newsfeed item appears as a separate message. New items are downloaded after a set period of time (1 hour by default).

If you have also created any e-mail or newsgroup accounts in Opera, the newsfeeds display in the Mail panel. Each newsfeed is displayed as a separate view. As with any message in Opera Mail, newsfeed messages can be stored indefinitely, searched, labelled, shown in filters, forwarded, or deleted.

Use newsgroups

Newsgroups are similar to discussion forums on the Web as they generally focus on a particular topic. By subscribing to a newsgroup, you will receive a message whenever an item for discussion is posted.

Subscribe to a newsgroup

To subscribe to a newsgroup in Opera Mail:

1. Set up a news account. See: Create or add an account. If you have a news account already, go to step 4.
2. Once the news account is set up, Opera downloads the list of available newsgroups for the server nominated for the account. Note that these lists are often large - 1 MB or more in size - and do not issue status reports.
3. Click on the checkbox next to the newsgroup in the list and click OK. You can select more than one. Tip: Use Quick find to narrow your selection.
4. To subscribe to newsgroups after account set up, go to Mail > Newsgroups to open the Newsgroups subscription dialog.

You can subscribe to more newsgroups at a later time by going to Mail > Newsgroups to open the Newsgroups subscription dialog. Use the Quick find field at the top of the dialog to narrow your selection.

Reading newsgroup messages

Reading and writing news articles is very similar to working with e-mail messages. Each news account has its own header in the Mail panel under the Newsgroups header, with a view for each newsgroup you subscribe to. Newsgroup messages do not show in the Unread view by default.

To read newsgroup messages, click the group you want to read under the News at header in the Mail panel. Note: The first time you select and view a newsgroup, you are asked how many headers and/ or messages to download since the last posting. For news accounts, headers only are downloaded by default. You can change this setting in the account settings.

The table below lists options you may need when handling news messages:

If you want to...	Then...
post a follow-up article(an answer to the article you are currently reading)	click Reply on the message.
post a follow-up and also reply to the author by e-mail	click Reply all on the message.
post your article in multiple groups (called 'cross-posting')	enter a comma-separated list of groups in the To field.
send people copies of the article by e-mail	enter e-mail addresses in the CC field.
attempt to delete an article from the server	use Cancel post (respected by some, but not all, news servers).
delete a news article	select the message and press Delete (only deletes your local copy).
download new newsgroup messages from a server.	click the arrow on the Check button in the Mail panel. select your news account from the drop-down list, or the newsgroup view. Tip: You can also ensure the view is active and press F5.
download specific messages	use the following syntax to download a specific message: nntp://[newsserver]/[newsgroup]/[message range]. For example, to download the first message in the opera.general newsgroup at news.opera.com, you'd use nntp://news.opera.com/opera.general/1. To download the first through one thousandth messages, use nntp://news.opera.com/opera.general/1-1000. Message numbers are usually located in the Xref message header, as in "Xref: news.opera.com opera.wishlist:16983" which has the form "Xref: [newsserver] [newsgroup]:[message number]. Since these addresses are simple URLs, you can enter them directly into Opera's address field.