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Getting a list of Conferences

Unless you already know which CIX conferences you want to join, you will find it helpful to see a list of CIX conferences.

To get to the Conference list, go to the Conf menu and select Show All Conferences. A window entitled 'Full List of CIX Conferences' will appear. This will show a list of available Conferences that you can subscribe to. To search the list for a particular conference, type its name into the Find text box.

To get a list of all the new conferences created since the previous list, just click on the Update button. After the next blink, if you go to the New tab on the 'Full List of CIX Conferences' window it will have a list of all the newly created conferences.

If you'd like to choose a conference from the list of CIX conferences, open the list by going to the Conf menu and selecting Show All Conferences.

Any conference in which you already participate will be shown in red, and a padlock symbol next to the conference name indicates that the conference is closed. To join a closed conference you must e-mail the moderator of the conference and ask to be joined.

Select the conference that you'd like to join by clicking on the CIX symbol. The name of the conference will become highlighted. Now click the Join button at the top of the list. The Join Conference dialogue will open with the conference that you selected already entered. Click OK to join it.

The last 100 messages from the selected conference will be downloaded in the next blink by default.

If you already know of a conference that you'd like to join, go to the Conf menu and select Join Conference. Enter the name of the conference into the 'Join Conference' dialogue box. Click the OK button.

If you're no longer interested in receiving new messages from a conference you can resign it. This will stop you receiving any new messages, but it won't delete the messages that you already have from your message database.

To resign a conference, select the conference that you wish to resign from in the In Basket. Go to the Conf menu and select Resign Conference or press CTRL+S. The next time that you blink, you will be resigned from the conference and you will no longer receive messages.

The conference and topic name will fade from black to grey to indicate that you have resigned.