On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 07:58:58PM -0800, Mike Castle wrote: > In article <Pine.GSO.4.56.0312101115360.7933@vax.hanford.org>, > Matt Ackeret <mattack@vax.hanford.org> wrote: > >On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Michael Wang wrote: > >>1. Pnews is quicker. With trn and ":p", you have to select the group, > >>wait for "overview" to complete, then you can post a message. > > > >What do you mean by select the group? Don't you post when you're already > >in a particular group? > > > You never post from outside of trn? Automated postings of FAQs, for > instance. Or perhaps automating the posting of something to multiple > sources (I could see where someone might want to do something like lynx > -dump ../announcements.html | Pnews, with appropriate glue of course). Blah, I just use a shell script that crafts all the headers and then calls (a non-trn) "inews -h" for my FAQ posting and binaries posting... :) There are various 'inews'es supporting authinfo out there, using other files than .nntpauth (or else letting you specify another filename in their source code) so you won't bump into the trn + .nntpauth quirk when you use those... Marco van Loon ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/
