SENDING A MESSAGE


Send a Message

To send a message for others to read on a board for which you have the Private Key, first select your board.  Then click the icon highlighted in yellow.  This will bring up a message window:

Message Window

Here you can enter your board's name in the Board textbox.  In the From text box you can select the identity that you chose when frost first started.  The Subject box is self-explanatory.  Your message goes in the large white text box where you see Blah Blah Blah Blah typed.  The Encrypt For checkbox in the message window is used to encrypt your message to be readable only by a certain user.  In order to encrypt a message to a given user it is necessary to sign that message.  Notice the sign checkbox icon at the top of this  window.  If you select it, your message will  be signed with your chosen identity key, thus positively identifying your pseudonym to others.  This does not identify you as freenet is designed to keep others from knowing your identity unless you choose to reveal it at some given time.  The icon to the left of the sign icon is left-clicked if you wish to attach a file to your message.  If you click it, you will receive the same type of window for selecting a file as you do when uploading a file.  The trash can icon can be clicked  on if you wish to cancel  the message you were composing.  The leftmost icon is pressed when you are ready to send your message to be posted on your board.  Please understand that only those who have your boards Public key can read messages you insert on your board.  And only someone with the board's Private Key can publish to that board.  If you have only the Public key for a board, you can read messages on, but you cannot publish to that board.

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