POSTNEWS(7) (alice) POSTNEWS(7)
NAME
postnews - submit netnews articles
SYNOPSIS
postnews [ file ]
DESCRIPTION
Postnews submits the file as a readnews(7) article. It
prompts for title, primary newsgroup, and other newsgroup
distribution. Good manners decree an informative title and
accurate, minimal, distribution.
The names of newsgroups are relative pathnames of directo-
ries depending from with slashes replaced by dots.
If no file is specified, postnews invokes an editor speci-
fied by the environment variable EDITOR (default `vi'). The
editor's buffer is initialized with header information,
which may be changed. The text of the article may be
appended.
SEE ALSO
readnews(7)
BSD manual for more sophisticated uses, such as posting news
from a program.
BUGS
The editor default is distinctly nonclassical.