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1.1     ! root        1: .TH INEWS 1
        !             2: .SH NAME
        !             3: inews \- submit news articles
        !             4: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             5: .B inews
        !             6: [
        !             7: .B \-h
        !             8: ]
        !             9: .B \-t
        !            10: .IR title " [ "
        !            11: .B \-n 
        !            12: .IR newsgroups " ] [ "
        !            13: .B \-e 
        !            14: .IR "expiration date" " ]"
        !            15: .PP
        !            16: .B "inews \-p"
        !            17: .RI " [ " filename " ] "
        !            18: .PP
        !            19: .BI "inews \-C " newsgroup
        !            20: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            21: .I Inews
        !            22: submits news articles to the USENET news
        !            23: network.
        !            24: It is intended as a raw interface, not as a human user interface.
        !            25: Casual users should probably use
        !            26: .IR postnews (1)
        !            27: instead.
        !            28: .PP
        !            29: The first form is for submitting user articles.
        !            30: The body will be read from the standard
        !            31: input.  A
        !            32: .I title
        !            33: must be specified as there is no default.  Each article
        !            34: belongs to a list of newsgroups.  If the
        !            35: .B \-n
        !            36: flag is omitted, the list
        !            37: will default to something line 
        !            38: .IR general .
        !            39: (On ours, it is 
        !            40: .IR general .)
        !            41: If you wish to submit
        !            42: an article in multiple newsgroups, the
        !            43: .I newsgroups
        !            44: must be separated by commas and/or spaces.
        !            45: If not specified, the expiration date will be
        !            46: set to the local default.
        !            47: The
        !            48: .B \-f
        !            49: flag specifies the article's sender.  Without this flag, the sender
        !            50: defaults to the user's name.
        !            51: If
        !            52: .B \-f
        !            53: is specified, the real sender's name will be included as a Sender line.
        !            54: The
        !            55: .B \-h
        !            56: flag specifies that headers are present at the beginning of the
        !            57: article, and these headers should be included with the article
        !            58: header instead of as text.
        !            59: (This mechanism can be used to edit headers and supply additional
        !            60: nondefault headers, but not to specify certain information,
        !            61: such as the sender and article ID, that inews itself generates.)
        !            62: .LP
        !            63: When posting an article, the environment is checked for
        !            64: information about the sender.
        !            65: If NAME is found, its value is used for the full name,
        !            66: rather than the system value (often in /etc/passwd).
        !            67: This is useful if the system value cannot be set, or when
        !            68: more than one person uses the same login.
        !            69: If ORGANIZATION is found, the value overrides the system
        !            70: default organization.
        !            71: This is useful when a person uses a guest login and is
        !            72: not primarily associated with the organization owning the machine.
        !            73: .LP
        !            74: The second form is used for receiving articles from other machines.
        !            75: If
        !            76: .I filename
        !            77: is given, the article will be read from the specified file; otherwise
        !            78: the article will be read from the standard input.  An expiration date
        !            79: need not be present and a receival date, if present, will be ignored.
        !            80: .LP
        !            81: After local installation, inews will transmit the article to all systems
        !            82: that subscribe to the newsgroups that the article belongs to.
        !            83: .LP
        !            84: The third form is for creating new newsgroups.  On some systems, this may
        !            85: be limited to specific users such as the super-user or news administrator.
        !            86: (This happens on ours.)
        !            87: .LP
        !            88: If the file /usr/lib/news/recording is present, it is taken as a list of
        !            89: "recordings" to be shown to users posting news.
        !            90: (This is by analogy to the recording you hear when you dial information
        !            91: in some parts of the country, asking you if you really wanted to do this.)
        !            92: The file contains lines of the form:
        !            93: .br
        !            94:        newsgroups <tab> filename
        !            95: .br
        !            96: for example:
        !            97: .br
        !            98:        net.all net.recording
        !            99:        fa.all  fa.recording
        !           100: .br
        !           101: Any user posting an article to a newsgroup matching the pattern on
        !           102: the left will be shown the contents of the file on the right.
        !           103: The file is found in the LIB directory (often /usr/lib/news).
        !           104: The user is then told to hit DEL to abort or RETURN to proceed.
        !           105: The intent of this feature is to help companies keep proprietary
        !           106: information from accidently leaking out.
        !           107: .SH FILES
        !           108: .PD 0
        !           109: .TP 25
        !           110: /usr/spool/news/.sys.nnn
        !           111: temporary articles
        !           112: .TP 25
        !           113: .RI /usr/spool/news/ newsgroups / article_no.
        !           114: Articles
        !           115: .TP 25
        !           116: /usr/spool/oldnews/
        !           117: Expired articles
        !           118: .TP 25
        !           119: /usr/lib/news/active
        !           120: List of known newsgroups and highest local article numbers in each.
        !           121: .TP 25
        !           122: /usr/lib/news/seq
        !           123: Sequence number of last article
        !           124: .TP 25
        !           125: /usr/lib/news/history
        !           126: List of all articles ever seen
        !           127: .TP 25
        !           128: /usr/lib/news/sys
        !           129: System subscription list
        !           130: .PD
        !           131: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !           132: Mail(1),
        !           133: binmail(1),
        !           134: getdate(3),
        !           135: msgs(1),
        !           136: news(5),
        !           137: newsrc(5),
        !           138: postnews(1),
        !           139: readnews(1),
        !           140: recnews(1),
        !           141: sendnews(8),
        !           142: uucp(1),
        !           143: uurec(8),
        !           144: .SH AUTHORS
        !           145: Matt Glickman
        !           146: .br
        !           147: Mark Horton
        !           148: .br
        !           149: Stephen Daniel
        !           150: .br
        !           151: Tom R. Truscott

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