Re: No postnews or other Usenet news utilities?

[Reid Thompson <reid dot thompson at ateb dot com>]

Dave Korn wrote:
> On 24 May 2006 21:48, Bruce Wehr wrote:
>
>
>   
> > >   Spamming is a sin; it is selfishness and arrogance to the
> > > point of solipsism.  Stop it today.
> > >       
> > HEY!  One point we can agree on!  Cool!  Maybe you're not such a bad guy
> > after all!
> >
> >     
> > > READ the faq:
> > > http://www.faqs.org/faqs/misc-forsale-faq/posting-ads/
> > >       
> > OMG, thank you!  A useful, helpful pointer!  THAT'S the kind of stuff I was
> > looking for in a reply!  I was starting to think that your post had no
> > substance at all; that it was full of useless flames and nothing else.
> >
> > Honestly, that document didn't exist when I was selling Pokemon cards
> > several years ago.  (If it was, I wasn't aware of it, and nobody pointed it
> > out to me.)  I will read that document, in it's entirety, and heed its
> > advice.  Thank you again for at least that one piece of useful information.
> >
> > Now that THAT'S settled, does anyone else have any other USEFUL information
> > for me?
> >     
>
>   Well, since you're not going to spam with it, http://cygwin.com/packages/
> lists pine and tin.  I haven't tried either of them myself but lots of people
> swear by them so you might like to have a go.
>
>
>     cheers,
>       DaveK
>   
postnews appears to be a python script -- it *should* work as long as 
you've used setup.exe to install python.

WS-XP-4960[13:28:57]: /usr/local/bin>
$ postnews -h
postnews 0.5.3 - (C) 2001 by Michael Waschbuesch

Usage: postnews [OPTIONS] SERVER
Post a usenet article (including headers) from stdin onto SERVER.
Article must at least contain the headers 'From:', 'Newsgroups:' and 
'Subject:',
a newline and a body.

Options: -h, --help          display this text
        -v, --verbose       be verbose
        -f, --file=FILE     read file instead of stdin
        -p, --port=PORT     port number
            --user=NAME     user name
            --pass=PASSWD   password
        -r, --readermode    send MODE READER before authentication



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