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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 16:35:58 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2016-07-13, Ian Zimmerman <itz@buug.org> wrote:
> On 2016-07-13 14:50 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> > There are such tools for SMTP (swaks if nothing else).  Why not for
>> > NNTP?
>> 
>> Because you haven't written it yet?  ;)
>
> In fact I have, see the OP.  I just cannot believe I was the first one
> there.

All of the news server packages used to come with command line posting
utilities.  But they usually posted to the local server and not to a
remote NNTP server.  But, I haven't run a news server in 20+ years...

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