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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.
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