SENDNEWS(8)
NAME
sendnews − send news articles via mail
SYNOPSIS
sendnews [ −o ] [ −a ] [ −b ] [ −n newsgroups ] destination
DESCRIPTION
sendnews reads an article from it’s 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.