SENDNEWS(8) — MAINTENANCE COMMANDS

NAME

sendnews − send news articles via mail

sendnews [ −o ] [ −a ] [ −b ] [ −n newsgroups ] destination

Sendnews reads an article from its standard input, performs a set of changes to it, and gives it to the mail program to mail it to destination.

An “N” is prepended to each line for decoding by uurec(1).

The −o flag handles old format articles.

The −a flag is used for sending articles via the ARPANET. It maps the article’s path from uucphost!xxx to xxx@arpahost.

The −b flag is used for sending articles via the Berknet. It maps the article’s path from uucphost!xxx to berkhost:xxx.

The −n flag changes the article’s newsgroup to the specified newsgroup.