EMAIL=fred@bloggs.isp.co.uk REALNAME=Fred Bloggs EXPIRESAFTER=3 ARTICLEWINDOW=YES ARTICLEWINFONTSIZE=14 CYRILLIC=NO HEADERS=SHORT AUTOEXPIRE=NO .
EMAIL and REALNAME should be fairly obvious and have to present.
EXPIRESAFTER is the number of days for which newsgroup articles are keep when you choose the Expire News option from the group maintenance menu. This option has to be present.
ARTICLEWINDOW=YES. This option will make NewsBe open an Article Window on start up. The other option is ARTICLEWINDOW=NO. This preference is optional and will default to NO if left out.
ARTICLEWINFONTSIZE=14 sets the font size in the Article window and the Artice pane. This is optional too and will use the default plain font size.
CYRILLIC=YES will do a KOI8R conversion on all the articles you read, this is there for testing, if it doesn't work then if someone would point be to a UTF-8 cyrillic font, I'd be very greatful. It's optional and defaults to NO.
HEADERS=SHORT will reduce headers down to Subject, From and Newsgroup where applicable. The other option at the moment is HEADERS=FULL. This option is again optional, and will default to FULL.
AUTOEXPIRE=YES will expire news messages older than EXPIRESAFTER days automatically on exiting NewsBe, this preference is optional and defaults to AUTOEXPIRE=NO
Subscriptions should be in a file called .subs in the same directory as NewsBe.news.demon.co.uk comp.sys.be.misc -1 y alt.babylon5.uk -1 y nntp.futurenet.co.uk pcplus.beos -1 y .