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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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