Long ago I wrote my own implementation of inews(1), which reads a news message on standard input and posts it by NNTP. Particular features of this version are:
Currently Autoconf 2.13 is probably required to build it.
You can get it from my Arch repository:
$ tla register-archive http://www.greenend.org.uk/arch/rjk@greenend.org.uk--2004 Registering archive: rjk@greenend.org.uk--2004 $ tla get rjk@greenend.org.uk--2004/inews--mainline--0 inews [lots of output] $ cd inews $ autoconf $ mkdir =build $ cd =build $ ../configure [lots of output] $ make [lots of output] $ make install # as root [lots of output]
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Copyright © 1999 Ian Jackson.
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