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authorJacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com>2026-04-26 16:38:00 -0400
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+.TH POSTNEWS 1
+.UC
+.SH NAME
+postnews \- submit news articles
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.BR postnews " [ "
+.IR article " ]"
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.I Postnews
+is a shell script that calls
+.IR inews (1)
+to submit news articles to USENET.
+It will prompt 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)
+for the newsgroup,
+and for the distribution.
+.PP
+An omitted newsgroup (from hitting return)
+will default to
+.IR general .
+.PP
+.I general
+is read by everyone on the local machine.
+Other possible newsgroups include, but are not limited to,
+.IR btl.general ,
+which is read by all users at all Bell Labs sites on USENET,
+.IR net.general ,
+which is read by all users at all sites on USENET,
+and
+.IR 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
+.IR ucb.all ,
+that circulate within a local set of machines.
+(In this case,
+.I ucb
+newsgroups circulate among machines at the
+University of California at Berkeley.)
+.PP
+The distribution can be any valid newsgroup name list,
+and defaults to the same as the newsgroup.
+(If they are the same, the distribution will be omitted from the
+headers put into the editor buffer.)
+A distribution header will, if given, be included in the headers
+of the article, affecting where the article is distributed to.
+.PP
+After entering the title, newsgroup, and distribution,
+the user will be placed in an editor.
+If $EDITOR is set in the environment, that editor will be used.
+Otherwise, postnews defaults to
+.IR vi (1).
+.PP
+An initial set of headers containing the subject and newsgroups
+will be placed in the editor, followed by a blank line.
+The article should be appended to the buffer, after the blank line.
+These headers can be changed, or additional headers added,
+while in the editor, if desired.
+.PP
+Optionally, the article
+will be read from the specified
+.IR filename .
+.PP
+For more sophisticated uses, such as posting news from a program, see
+.IR inews (1).
+.SH FILES
+.PD 0
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+Mail(1),
+checknews(1),
+inews(1),
+mail(1),
+readnews(1).