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        !            11: ..
        !            12: .TH POSTNEWS 1 "October 22, 1986"
        !            13: .ds ]W  Version B 2.11
        !            14: .SH NAME
        !            15: postnews \- submit news articles
        !            16: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            17: .BR postnews " [ "
        !            18: .IR article " ]"
        !            19: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            20: .I Postnews
        !            21: is a program that calls
        !            22: .IR inews (8)
        !            23: to submit news articles to USENET.
        !            24: The commands should be self-explanatory, however you may type
        !            25: .Ch ?
        !            26: to most prompts to get a list of the possible options (except
        !            27: for the \*(LqKeywords\*(Rq of the article, etc).
        !            28: It will prompt the user for the title of the article
        !            29: (which should be a phrase suggesting the subject,
        !            30: so that persons reading the news can tell if they
        !            31: are interested in the article), for the newsgroup,
        !            32: and for the distribution.
        !            33: .PP
        !            34: The distribution is typically a geographic region or corporate region.
        !            35: Typing
        !            36: .Ch ?
        !            37: will get you a list of the possible distributions. You should
        !            38: use the minimum distribution that will serve your purpose for
        !            39: posting the article. For example, if you are selling your car in New
        !            40: Jersey, it is doubtful that someone in California (or Europe) would
        !            41: be willing to buy it. If you don't restrict the distribution to your
        !            42: local area, you will cause this article to be transmitted unnecessarily
        !            43: around the world.  Currently, with a distribution of
        !            44: .BR world ,
        !            45: the article
        !            46: will be seen in the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, Korea and
        !            47: other places.
        !            48: A distribution header will, if given, be included in the headers
        !            49: of the article, affecting where the article is distributed.
        !            50: .PP
        !            51: After entering the title, newsgroup, and distribution,
        !            52: the user will be placed in an editor.
        !            53: If
        !            54: .B EDITOR
        !            55: is set in the environment, that editor will be used.
        !            56: Otherwise,
        !            57: .I postnews
        !            58: defaults to
        !            59: .IR vi (1).
        !            60: .PP
        !            61: An initial set of headers containing the subject and newsgroups
        !            62: will be placed in the editor, followed by a blank line.
        !            63: The article should be appended to the buffer, after the blank line.
        !            64: The initial headers can be changed, or additional headers added,
        !            65: while in the editor, if desired.
        !            66: .PP
        !            67: After you have finished typing in your article, you have the
        !            68: option of sending it, listing it, quitting without sending it,
        !            69: editing the file again, or
        !            70: saving it in a file without sending it.
        !            71: .PP
        !            72: For posting news from a program, see
        !            73: .IR inews (8).
        !            74: .LP
        !            75: If the file
        !            76: .I /usr/lib/news/recording
        !            77: is present, it is taken as a list of
        !            78: \&\*(Lqrecordings\*(Rq to be shown to users posting news.
        !            79: (This is named after the recording you hear when you dial
        !            80: .Ch information
        !            81: in some parts of the U.S., asking you to stop and think if you really want do
        !            82: do this, but not actually preventing you.)
        !            83: The recording file contains lines of the form:
        !            84: .PP
        !            85:        newsgroup-specifier \fB\s-2TAB\s0\fP filename
        !            86: .PP
        !            87: for example:
        !            88: .PP
        !            89:        comp.all        comp.recording
        !            90: .br
        !            91:        local.all,!local.test local.recording
        !            92: .PP
        !            93: Any user posting an article to a newsgroup matching the pattern on
        !            94: the left will be shown the contents of the file on the right.
        !            95: The file is found in the
        !            96: .B LIBDIR
        !            97: directory (often
        !            98: .IR /usr/lib/news ).
        !            99: The user is then told to hit \s-2DEL\s0 to abort or \s-2RETURN\s0 to proceed.
        !           100: The intent of this feature is to help companies keep proprietary
        !           101: information from accidently leaking out.
        !           102: .SH FILES
        !           103: .PD 0
        !           104: .TP 25
        !           105: /usr/lib/news/active
        !           106: List of known newsgroups and highest local article numbers in each.
        !           107: .TP 25
        !           108: /usr/lib/news/distributions
        !           109: Suggested distribution code names
        !           110: .TP 25
        !           111: /usr/lib/news/newsgroups
        !           112: Descriptons of newsgroups
        !           113: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !           114: inews(8),
        !           115: readnews(1),
        !           116: vi(1),
        !           117: news(5),
        !           118: expire(8)

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