.TH POSTNEWS 1 "2002-06-28"
.SH NAME
postnews \- Post a Usenet article to a server
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B postnews
.RI [ OPTIONS ]
.I SERVER
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
.B postnews
command.
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution
because the original program does not have a manual page.
.PP
.B Postnews
is used to post Usenet articles (including headers) from stdin to a server.
The article must at least contain the headers
.IR From: ", " Newsgroups: ", " Subject: ,
a newline and a body.
.SH OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
options starting with two dashes ("-").
A summary of options is included below.
.TP
.BR \-h ", " \-\-help
Show summary of options.
.TP
.BR \-v ", " \-\-verbose
Be verbose.
.TP
.BR \-f ", " \-\-file= FILE
Read file instead of stdin.
.TP
.BR \-p ", " \-\-port
Port number.
.TP
.BR \-\-user
User name.
.TP
.BR \-\-pass
Password.
.TP
.BR \-r ", " \-\-readermode
Send MODE READER before authentication.
.SH AUTHOR
Postnews is written by
Michael Waschb\[:u]sch <waschbuesch@users.sourceforge.net>.
This manual page was written by Peter Karlsson <peterk@debian.org>,
for the Debian project (but may be used by others).