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        !             2:      This is a "pseudo" inews which allows remote posting using
        !             3: the NNTP server.  Essentially it takes a bunch of arguments and ignores
        !             4: ones starting with "-", expecting to find at least one which is
        !             5: a file name.  If no files are specified, it uses standard input
        !             6: as the input file.
        !             7: 
        !             8:      It then opens a connection to the NNTP server on the remote
        !             9: machine and blasts the article across.  It then closes the connection.
        !            10: If it doesn't find a From: or Path: line, it inserts them, in the
        !            11: default format
        !            12: 
        !            13:        From: [email protected] (Full_name)
        !            14:        Path: hostname!login
        !            15: 
        !            16: where DOMAIN is a #define in ../common/conf.h, and should be changed
        !            17: to reflect your system.  A good choice is .UUCP if you are not a
        !            18: member of the Internet.  "Full_name" understands the & hack in
        !            19: password files.
        !            20: 
        !            21:      The point here is that the thing looks like inews to any program
        !            22: which would care to post something (e.g., Pnews, postnews, what have
        !            23: you).  The difference is that the article will look like it was posted
        !            24: on the remote end, not on the local end.
        !            25: 
        !            26:      Caveat: we determine the host to post to with the #define of
        !            27: SERVER_HOST in ../common/conf.h.  This needs to change to reflect your
        !            28: system.
        !            29: 
        !            30:      Thanks to Steven Grady <[email protected]> for
        !            31: writing this, and for wasting a lot of his valuable time dealing
        !            32: with the can-o'-worms that is the real inews.
        !            33: 

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