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On 2016-07-13 03:15 +0000, James wrote:

> I just use thunderbird to post to nntp, assuming you have access to
> the nntp server, just configure thunderbird or many any advance email
> program may have that ability, to post to an nntp server.

I should have made it more clear that I meant a command line, pipe
friendly, Unix toolkit bit.

There are such tools for SMTP (swaks if nothing else).  Why not for
NNTP?  Why does news posting apparently require a huge monolithic "app"?

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