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Hyperbole User Manual

3.7.7 Buttons in News

Explicit buttons may be embedded within outgoing USENET news articles and may be activated from news articles that are being read. This support is available for the GNUS news reader. It is enabled by default within `hsite.el' by autoloading the `hgnus.el' file.

All Hyperbole support should work just as it does when reading or sending mail. See section 3.7.6 Buttons in Mail. When reading news, buttons which appear in message Subject lines may be activated within the GNUS subject buffer as well as the article buffer. When posting news, the *post-news* buffer is used for outgoing news articles rather than the *mail* buffer.

Remember that the articles you post do not contain the action type definitions used by the buttons, so the receiver must have these or she will receive an error when he activates the buttons. You should also keep in mind that most USENET readers will not be using Hyperbole, so if they receive a news article containing explicit buttons, they will wonder what the button data at the end of the message is. You should therefore limit distribution of such messages. For example, if most people at your site read news with GNUS and use Hyperbole, it would be reasonable to embed buttons in postings to local newsgroups.

In order to alert readers of your postings that you can utilize Hyperbole mail buttons embedded within personal replies, the system automatically inserts the same comment that is included within mail messages to announce this fact. See section 3.7.6 Buttons in Mail, for details and an explanation of how to turn this feature off.