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NAME
       postnews - submit netnews articles

SYNOPSIS
       postnews [ file ]

DESCRIPTION
       Postnews  submits  the file as a netnews article.  It prompts for title
       (informative, please), primary newsgroup, and other newsgroup distribu‐
       tion (not recommended).

       The names of newsgroups are relative pathnames of directories depending
       from /usr/spool/netnews, with slashes (/) replaced by dots (.).

       If no file is specified, postnews invokes an editor  specified  by  the
       environment  variable  EDITOR  (default vi(1)).  The editor's buffer is
       initialized with header information, which may be changed.  The text of
       the article may be appended.

       For more sophisticated uses, such as posting news from a  program,  see
       the BSD manual.

SEE ALSO
       readnews(1)

BUGS
       The editor default is distinctly nonclassical.

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