CONFERENCE MAIN MENU -------------------- All new messages in a conference can be read by repeatedly pressing SPACE or RETURN. This will take you through IN SUBJECT ORDER (not in order of posting). NOTE: Occasionally the file reader will say that there are more unread messages than there really are. This can occur if messages have been deleted. The commands offered to you will depend on what you are allowed to do and the state of the reader. Key Function --- -------- B Backwards one message in POSTING order. C Catch Up, marking as read either all messages you haven't read or just those with the same subject as the current message E Enter a new message (see separate help page) G Go to a specified message number. If no message number is specified then nothing will change. Some message numbers can be viewed by pressing 'L' to list the conference thread list. Alternatively message numbers can be found by pressing 's' to scan the threads. I Information page for the conference detailing the sorts of message that go in the conference J Jump to the next conference. This will exit from the current conference, but won't take you back to the LuBBs main menu. L Display conference thread list with thread number and thread title. Also displays information about the total number of messages in a thread, the starting and ending message number for a thread, the total number of unread messages for a thread and the current starting message number for a thread if the original message has been auto-deleted. For example 4 - new stuff 5 total (starting 11933, ending 11939), 3 new (starting 11937) N Read the next/new message in SUBJECT order S Scan/search message headers for this conference. Firstly, you will be given the option of seeing 'only' those messages that are unread. Next, you can choose to show full headers, just the subject or abort the search. Finally, you can specify a string of text to search for in the message. This will bring up a list of all the messages within the conference that match your search criteria. Using this option will also allow you to see which messages have been Damnusefulled (protected from Auto-Delete). T Go to subject thread number. U Unsubscribe to this conference if you no longer want to see messages in the conference. You can resubscribe later and your message count will still be held X Exit Conference back to the LuBBs main menu. ? Displays a brief summary of the commands available.