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1.1       root        1: .TH POSTNEWS 1
                      2: .UC
                      3: .SH NAME
                      4: postnews \- submit news articles
                      5: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      6: .BR postnews " [ "
                      7: .IR article " ]"
                      8: .SH DESCRIPTION
                      9: .I Postnews
                     10: is a shell script that calls
                     11: .IR inews (1)
                     12: to submit news articles to USENET.
                     13: It will prompt the user for the title of the article
                     14: (which should be a phrase suggesting the subject,
                     15: so that persons reading the news can tell if they
                     16: are interested in the article)
                     17: for the newsgroup,
                     18: and for the distribution.
                     19: .PP
                     20: An omitted newsgroup (from hitting return)
                     21: will default to
                     22: .IR general .
                     23: .PP
                     24: .I general
                     25: is read by everyone on the local machine.
                     26: Other possible newsgroups include, but are not limited to,
                     27: .IR btl.general ,
                     28: which is read by all users at all Bell Labs sites on USENET,
                     29: .IR net.general ,
                     30: which is read by all users at all sites on USENET,
                     31: and
                     32: .IR net.news ,
                     33: which is read by users interested in the network news on all sites.
                     34: There is often a local set of newsgroups, such as
                     35: .IR ucb.all ,
                     36: that circulate within a local set of machines.
                     37: (In this case, 
                     38: .I ucb
                     39: newsgroups circulate among machines at the
                     40: University of California at Berkeley.)
                     41: .PP
                     42: The distribution can be any valid newsgroup name list,
                     43: and defaults to the same as the newsgroup.
                     44: (If they are the same, the distribution will be omitted from the
                     45: headers put into the editor buffer.)
                     46: A distribution header will, if given, be included in the headers
                     47: of the article, affecting where the article is distributed to.
                     48: .PP
                     49: After entering the title, newsgroup, and distribution,
                     50: the user will be placed in an editor.
                     51: If $EDITOR is set in the environment, that editor will be used.
                     52: Otherwise, postnews defaults to
                     53: .IR vi (1).
                     54: .PP
                     55: An initial set of headers containing the subject and newsgroups
                     56: will be placed in the editor, followed by a blank line.
                     57: The article should be appended to the buffer, after the blank line.
                     58: These headers can be changed, or additional headers added,
                     59: while in the editor, if desired.
                     60: .PP
                     61: Optionally, the article
                     62: will be read from the specified
                     63: .IR filename .
                     64: .PP
                     65: For more sophisticated uses, such as posting news from a program, see
                     66: .IR inews (1).
                     67: .SH FILES
                     68: .PD 0
                     69: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     70: Mail(1),
                     71: checknews(1),
                     72: inews(1),
                     73: mail(1),
                     74: readnews(1).

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