NAME

postnews − submit news articles

SYNOPSIS

postnews [ filename ]

DESCRIPTION

Postnews is a shell script that calls inews(1) to submit news articles to USENET.  Postnews prompts the user for the title of the article (which should be a phrase suggesting the subject, so that persons reading the news can tell if they are interested in the article) and for the newsgroup.  An omitted newsgroup (from typing return) defaults to general.

general is read by everyone on the local machine.  Other possible newsgroups include, but are not limited to, btl.general, which is read by all users at all Bell Labs sites on USENET, net.general, which is read by all users at all sites on USENET, and net.news, which is read by users interested in the network news on all sites. There is often a local set of newsgroups, such as ucb.all, that circulate within a local set of machines.  In this case, ucb newsgroups circulate among machines at the University of California at Berkeley. 

After entering the title and newsgroup, the user should type the body of the article.  To end the article, type control D at the beginning of a line.  If the environment variable EDITOR is set to the pathname of an editor, the user will be placed in that editor instead of typing in the article by hand.  Optionally, the article will be read from the specified filename.

For more sophisticated uses, such as specifying an expiration date, see inews(1).

SEE ALSO

Mail(1), checknews(1), expire(8), inews(1), mail(1), msgs(1), readnews(1), recnews(8), sendnews(8), uucp(1), uurec(8)

Sun System Release 0.3  —  29 April 1983