.TH POSTNEWS 1 alice
.SH NAME
postnews \- submit netnews articles
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B postnews
[ file ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I postnews
submits the 
.I file
as a netnews article.
It prompts for title (informative, please),
primary newsgroup, and other newsgroup distribution (not recommended).
.PP
The names of newsgroups are relative pathnames
of directories depending from 
.I /usr/spool/netnews,
with slashes (/) replaced by dots (.).
.PP
If no file is specified,
.I postnews
invokes an editor specified by the environment variable EDITOR
(default
.IR vi (1)).
The editor's buffer is initialized with header information,
which may be changed.
The text of the article may be appended.
.PP
For more sophisticated uses, such as posting news from a program, see
the BSD manual.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
readnews(1)
.SH BUGS
The editor default is distinctly nonclassical.