X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4475E97D.2070204@ateb.com> Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 13:29:33 -0400 From: Reid Thompson Reply-To: reid DOT thompson AT ateb DOT com User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: No postnews or other Usenet news utilities? References: <004c01c67fdc$1b0a9990$a501a8c0 AT CAM DOT ARTIMI DOT COM> In-Reply-To: <004c01c67fdc$1b0a9990$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Dave Korn wrote: > On 24 May 2006 21:48, Bruce Wehr wrote: > > > >>> Spamming is a sin; it is selfishness and arrogance to the >>> point of solipsism. Stop it today. >>> >> HEY! One point we can agree on! Cool! Maybe you're not such a bad guy >> after all! >> >> >>> READ the faq: >>> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/misc-forsale-faq/posting-ads/ >>> >> OMG, thank you! A useful, helpful pointer! THAT'S the kind of stuff I was >> looking for in a reply! I was starting to think that your post had no >> substance at all; that it was full of useless flames and nothing else. >> >> Honestly, that document didn't exist when I was selling Pokemon cards >> several years ago. (If it was, I wasn't aware of it, and nobody pointed it >> out to me.) I will read that document, in it's entirety, and heed its >> advice. Thank you again for at least that one piece of useful information. >> >> Now that THAT'S settled, does anyone else have any other USEFUL information >> for me? >> > > Well, since you're not going to spam with it, http://cygwin.com/packages/ > lists pine and tin. I haven't tried either of them myself but lots of people > swear by them so you might like to have a go. > > > cheers, > DaveK > postnews appears to be a python script -- it *should* work as long as you've used setup.exe to install python. WS-XP-4960[13:28:57]: /usr/local/bin> $ postnews -h postnews 0.5.3 - (C) 2001 by Michael Waschbuesch Usage: postnews [OPTIONS] SERVER Post a usenet article (including headers) from stdin onto SERVER. Article must at least contain the headers 'From:', 'Newsgroups:' and 'Subject:', a newline and a body. Options: -h, --help display this text -v, --verbose be verbose -f, --file=FILE read file instead of stdin -p, --port=PORT port number --user=NAME user name --pass=PASSWD password -r, --readermode send MODE READER before authentication -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/