NAME

sendnews − send news articles via mail

SYNOPSIS

sendnews [ −o ] [ −a ] [ −b ] [ −n newsgroups ] destination

DESCRIPTION

Sendnews reads an article from its standard input, performs a set of changes to it, and gives it to the mail program to mail it to destination.

An “N” is prepended to each line for decoding by uurec(1). 

The −o flag handles old format articles. 

The −a flag is used for sending articles via the ARPANET.  It maps the article’s path from uucphost!xxx to xxx@arpahost.

The −b flag is used for sending articles via the Berknet.  It maps the article’s path from uucphost!xxx to berkhost:xxx.

The −n flag changes the article’s newsgroup to the specified newsgroup.

SEE ALSO

checknews(1), inews(1), postnews(1), readnews(1), vnews(1), news(5), recnews(8), uurec(8)

Version B 2.10.3  —  January 17, 1986