[net.news.b] postnews should check for a NAME environment variable

steffen (10/08/82)

I think the way postnews prompts you once for a name and saves it in a file
is great, particularly for new users, but my home dir has 18 .files at last
count!  It would be nice if postnews would look for a NAME environment var
before looking for a .name file; this NAME var could be used by other
commands, like those for reporting bugs.