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From: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Posting a New article
Summary: the same
Message-ID: <534@wet.UUCP>
Date: 12 Sep 89 08:55:48 GMT
References: <12339@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <4546@cps3xx.UUCP>
Reply-To: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
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In article <4546@cps3xx.UUCP> joshia@frith.UUCP (Amaresh Joshi) writes:
>In rn the f,F commands are used to post followup articles, but
>what is the command for posting a new article? Say for instance if
>a group had no unread articles.

If you followup the "null article" (which is at the end of the
newsgroup; you can get there by typing $) Pnews crafts a new
article.  If the newsgroup is long-inactive ("Newsgroup xxx
does not have a spool directory!") this might not work.

[From newsgroup selection level use .f to post a new article]

					-=EPS=-