dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) (03/19/85)
If you have rn, you have Pnews. Pnews is much better than postnews
for all users, and especially new users:
- it permits you to check your article before posting it
(with postnews, quitting the editor, intuitively a
harmless step, causes a posting)
- it provides more information about where your posting will go
- for the first-time user, it provides lots of help
- being a shell file, it's easily customized if you want to change it
- it's slow, which for news postings is an advantage - gives you
time to contemplate the enormity of what you are doing
==> IF YOU HAVE Pnews, YOU SHOULD MAKE postnews UNAVAILABLE TO CASUAL USERS!
This can be done simply by moving postnews to /usr/lib/news and replacing
/usr/bin/postnews with "echo use Pnews instead of postnews". Those users
who still wish to use postnews (I prefer it because of speed), and who
know how to use the net, can be pointed at /usr/lib/news/postnews.
Even if you don't have rn running, you can get Pnews from any site
which has it. Pnews does not depend on rn.
Dave Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
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