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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:      "hostname" is figured out by what you've #defined in ../common/conf.h.
        !            22: If you have defined GHNAME, it uses the gethostname() call.
        !            23: If you've defined UUNAME, it figured it out from the file
        !            24: /etc/uucpname.  Finally, if neither is defined it gets it from
        !            25: /usr/include/whoami.h.  If you have GHNAME defined and your
        !            26: gethostname() returns your fully-qualified Internet name,
        !            27: undefine DOMAIN.
        !            28: 
        !            29:      The point here is that the thing looks like inews to any program
        !            30: which would care to post something (e.g., Pnews, postnews, what have
        !            31: you).  The difference is that the article will look like it was posted
        !            32: on the remote end, not on the local end.  Please note that "postnews"
        !            33: (nor any of the other standard news programs) is not required for
        !            34: rrn/nntp on client machines.
        !            35: 
        !            36:      The "test*" files in this directory provide some good test
        !            37: material for inews; you can just redirect inews to take input from
        !            38: them or whatever.
        !            39: 
        !            40:      Thanks to Steven Grady <[email protected]> for
        !            41: writing this, and for wasting a lot of his valuable time dealing
        !            42: with the can-o'-worms that is the real inews.
        !            43: 
        !            44: BUGS:
        !            45: 
        !            46:      This version of inews doesn't handle real inews options.  As
        !            47: a result, some posting programs (notably the Gnumacs front end) will
        !            48: fail if they use this program.  In the interests of simplicity, I
        !            49: have no plans for modifying mini-inews to handle real-inews options.
        !            50: However, if you'd like to send me diffs I'll be more than happy to
        !            51: install them for the next release.

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