Starts a news posting.

Synopsis

• open_post_news -subject subject -newsgroups grouplist -distribution distribution

Description

This starts a news posting and returns the filehandle for use with puts, etc, for the contents of the message body. The message always comes "from" the user name of the owner of the webpage file that´s being interpreted, and the name of the server that did the serving.

When done writing the body of the news article, write a single line to the filehandle consisting only of a single period, then close the file.

Note that for this to work you must have a news server within your domain named or aliased as news. For example, within neosoft.com, open_post_news will try to contact the news server at news.neosoft.com.

This is an experimental capability that obviously needs work.