You post a new article to alt.test (a test newsgroup that should be used whenever you want to test posting), and a follow up response to someone else’s post.
Be sure you have subscribed to the alt.test newsgroup and opened it. Then follow the steps below:

1. Press the P key (Post). You will see a posting window similar to the one below:



Notice that the Newsgroups header field is already filled in with alt.test.

2. Enter a subject and article text.
In the Subject window, type testing, please ignore, press the Tab key, then type testing the body into the body of the article. If you defined a default signature it appears in the article body.

3. Click the right mouse button in the Attachments window and select the Add Attachment command.

4. Use the Choose Attachment dialog to pick a reasonable sized attachment (such as c:\config.sys).
NOTE: To control attachment encoding, choose the Global Options command from the View menu, then choose the Encoding tab before adding any attachments. Choose the MIME option if you want to use MIME as your encoding type instead of UUENCODING. Then all attachments use the encoding type. If you use the default settings on the Encoding tab, Gravity starts with an introductory article, followed by 64k parts until the complete attachment is posted. Many people like to change these settings so that there is no separate introduction and attachments do not get broken apart.

5. Add a second attachment if you like.

6. Click the Send button or press Ctrl-Enter to send the new post.
When you send an article, Gravity places the article in the outbox. Gravity monitors the outbox for outgoing items, and if you are connected to the news server, it transmits them.

7. To see the outbox, click the Outbox Bar.
You see one or more parts of the article. As soon as you send an article or reply, the icon on the left changes to a check mark and you see the time that the article was sent under the Sent column. If you are off-line when you send a message, Gravity sends the item next time you connect to the server.

8. Now that you have posted an article, send a follow-up to someone else’s post. Look for an article that is fairly short—less than 20 lines. Open the article by double-clicking on it.

9. Select a portion of the message with your mouse and press the F (Follow Up) key. Gravity quotes the selected part of the article instead of the entire thing. If you follow up to a lot of articles, this saves you lots of time. Most of the time you only want to reply to specific parts of an article and it is good etiquette not to over-quote the article you are replying to. 10. Type a response. Notice you can now select the CC to Author check box. This lets you simultaneously send an e-mail message to the author in case they do not read news frequently. Aside from that, following up is exactly like posting an article. Remember that the article is going into the newsgroup and is a part of the thread you are discussing. If you want to send a copy to yourself, check the CC to self checkbox. 11. To compose an e-mail response directly to an author without a corresponding post to the newsgroup, press the R (Reply) key.