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.\" @(#)postnews.1 1.1 92/07/30 SMI;
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.TH POSTNEWS 1 "6 January 1984"
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.UC
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.SH NAME
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postnews \- submit news articles
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.BR postnews " [ "
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.IR article " ]"
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.IX "postnews command" "" "\fLpostnews\fP \(em submit news articles"
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.IX "submit news articles" "" "submit news articles \(em \fLpostnews\fP"
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.IX "network news" "submit articles" "" "submit articles \(em \fLpostnews\fP"
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.IX news "submit articles" "" "submit articles \(em \fLpostnews\fP"
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.LP
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.I Postnews
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calls up the
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.IR inews (1)
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utility to submit news articles to
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.SM USENET.
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.I Postnews
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prompts you for the title of the article, for the newsgroup, and for
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the distribution. The title of the article should be a phrase suggesting
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the subject, so that persons reading the news can tell if they are interested
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in the article.
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.LP
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If you omit the name of the newsgroup (by typing a carriage-return when
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asked for the newsgroup),
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.I postnews
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posts the article to
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.IR general .
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.LP
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.I general
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is read by everyone on the local machine.
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Other possible newsgroups include, but are not limited to,
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.BI btl . general,
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read by all users at all Bell Labs sites on
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.SM USENET,
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.BI net . general,
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read by all users at all sites on
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.SM USENET,
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and
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.BI net . news ,
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read by users interested in the network news on all sites.
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There is often a local set of newsgroups, such as
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.BI ucb . all ,
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that circulate within a local set of machines.
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In this case,
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.I ucb
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newsgroups circulate among machines at the
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University of California at Berkeley.
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.LP
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The distribution can be any valid list of newsgroup names,
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and defaults to the same as the newsgroup.
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If they are the same, the distribution is omitted from the
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headers put into the editor buffer.
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A distribution header is included in the headers of the article if given,
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affecting where the article is distributed to.
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.LP
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After entering the title, newsgroup, and distribution,
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.I postnews
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calls up an editor program where you can compose the article.
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.I Postnews
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uses
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.IR vi (1)
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as the editor unless you have specified another editor via the
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.SM $EDITOR
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environment variable, in which case
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.I postnews
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uses the editor specified there.
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.LP
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An initial set of headers containing the subject and newsgroups
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will be placed in the editor, followed by a blank line.
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The article should be appended to the buffer, after the blank line.
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These headers can be changed, or additional headers added,
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while in the editor, if desired.
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.LP
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Optionally, the article is read from the file specified by
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.IR article .
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.LP
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For more sophisticated uses, such as posting news from a program, see
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.IR inews (1).
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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mail(1),
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checknews(1),
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inews(1),
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readnews(1).
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