Postings are organized into "Threads" according to their subject lines and their positioning in the indented outline format on the web page.
You can create a new thread but adding a message at the top-most level of the outline hierarchy--in our case, go to the bottom of the basic HyperNews page and click on the "Add a Message" button to add your message to "H3004M Honors MultiMedia"; this will become a new thread.
You can also add messages to existing threads. Just click on the thread's name (for instance, "Group Project Ideas") and you'll see a page with the current messages available in that thread. Once again, just by going to the bottom of the page, you can add a message to this thread by clicking on the Add a Message button.
HyperNews is also very handy for linking with other documents and images on the Web--when adding your message, just click on the HTML button, and then whatever html tags you put into the message will become live links when that message is posted to the forum. For instance, if you said in your message this:
Here's a link to a web site, just click onit would look like this:
<a href="http://ebbs.english.vt.edu">THIS</a>!
Here's a link to a web site, just click on THIS!
This capability means you can refer to earlier messages in the thread, too, directly quoting them (just use the Location window on your browser to get the URL); as well as include graphics from any web-server site (again, you need to know the URL).
So give it a try!