.TH SENDNEWS 1
.SH NAME
sendnews \- send news articles via mail
.SH SYNOPSIS
sendnews [-o] [-a] [-b] [-n newsgroups] destination
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I 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
.I destination.
.PP
An `N' is prepended to each line for decoding by
.IR uurec (8).
.PP
The
.B -o
flag handles old format articles.
.PP
The
.B -a
flag is used for sending articles via the
.B ARPANET.
It maps the article's path from
.I uucphost!xxx
to
.I xxx@arpahost.
.PP
The
.B -b
flag is used for sending articles via the
.B Berknet.
It maps the article's path from
.I uucphost!xxx
to
.I berkhost:xxx.
.PP
The
.B -n
flag changes the article's newsgroup to the specified
.I newsgroup.
.SH SEE ALSO
inews(1),
uurec(1),
recnews(1),
readnews(1),
newscheck(1)