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Help with Usenet moderation needed urgently



Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote:
> On 8/12/07, Bill Horne <billhorne-Wuw85uim5zDR7s880joybQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>   
>> Thanks for the suggestion: I just installed the nntp package, and tried
>> to use nntpxmit instead of rnews, but it's yet another learning curve to
>> climb. It seems the spammers are the only ones that know how to post to
>> newsgroups without having an NNTP server and associated files in perfect
>> order :-(.
>>     
>
> Oh, merely posting?  I thought you wanted to run a full-blown nntpd
> service!  Posting is easy and there are tons of apps.  For text, try
> pan.  If you want to automate binary posting, try newspost.  I use
> newspost to upload stuff all the time, like Linux ISOs.  If you want a
> free service, there are some, but usually your ISP offers a limited
> access NNTP server for all customers...
>
>   
>> What I'm looking for is a "stand alone" program that I can use for
>> one-by-one submissions from text files that contain one article per
>> file, or perhaps something with a batch capability that will allow me to
>> cat the files together. If tornado has such a capability, I'll use it.
>>     
>
> newspost for sure...
>   

OK, that's good to know: I had thought newspost was for posting 
multiple-section binaries, not single articles. Was I wrong?

Bill


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