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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Program for posting to a Newsgroup
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 14:50:59 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2016-07-13, Ian Zimmerman <itz@buug.org> wrote:
> On 2016-07-13 03:15 +0000, James wrote:

> 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?

Because you haven't written it yet?  ;)

Have you looked at inews?  The man page is a bit vague, but its
configuration file has a spot to configure an NNTP server.

>  Why does news posting apparently require a huge monolithic "app"?

It doesn't.

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