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. 

SEE ALSO

inews(1), uurec(8), recnews(8), readnews(1), checknews(1)

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