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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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