Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!orstcs!jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU!kleinj From: kleinj@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Justin Klein) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: Posting a New article Summary: I found this out by $crewing around with *.test. Message-ID: <12470@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> Date: 12 Sep 89 16:35:25 GMT References: <12339@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <4546@cps3xx.UUCP> <1989Sep12.015235.1614@twwells.com> Sender: usenet@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU Reply-To: kleinj@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU.UUCP (Justin Klein) Followup-To: <1989Sep12.015235.1614@twwells.com> Distribution: usa Organization: A very nice public dialup in Corvllis, Or, thank you. Lines: 39 In message <1614@twwells.com>, bill@twwells.com (T.William Wells), in answer to a query from joshia@frith.UUCP (Amaresh Joshi) suggest that the only way he know of to post news to a newsgroup with no unread message in it is to issue the command !Pnews Since I am a new user who got though posting news himslf at last, late last t, with little or no help from support (If you are watching, support, please still answer the mail I left you...the help I need is boundless), I found out a way or two to do it otherwise. One is quite interesting and rather unexpectd. The obvious one is to use simply the command Pnews . I liked this as it also prompted me for distirbution with a list of al the good ones I could get from here. The other one is not as obvious, but had the virtue of begin the one my system help file suggested (interestingly enough...it wasn't to get out of the news group and typ 'Pnews'...that one I figured out on my own!). all that is nece- ssry is to use the followup command (little 'f') on what the help calls the 'end of newsgroup pseudoarticle'. This seems to be an article in the same way the permanent .END. in an HP41C's program memory is an instruction. To do it this way, I had to 'g' to the newsgroup in question: g here.dummy . The system answered my by saying ****** 0 unread messages in here.dummy read now?[ynq]. To this question I answered 'yes'. The next thing I got was the notice 'end of here.dummy'. This is the end-of newsgroup pseudoarticle. Just after this was the prompt: 'What next [npq]?' It was here I entered the 'f'. In following up to the pseudoarticle, the system had nothing, really to follow up to, and assumed I, then, wanted to post an original article. Simple (????????!) as that. I guess. In a spirit of total confusion.... -kleinj@jacobs.cs.orst.edu-/-Justin the Blue-/-The CP/M Institute of Ecotopia- SNAIL MAIL:Not since my attack cat got out ARPA:Say 'excuse me' after you make that noise, youngster! COMPU$ERVE:What do I look like, made of money or something?!?!?!