Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!vsi!friedl
From: friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Is there any way to save outgoing postings?
Message-ID: <417@vsi.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 88 00:51:16 GMT
References: <398@vsi.UUCP>
Distribution: news
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
Lines: 27
Keywords: vnews, outbox
Summary: got a great answer: the $NEWSARCHIVE variable

In article <398@vsi.UUCP>, friedl@vsi.UUCP I write:
>      Is there a built-in way in vnews to record outgoing
> postings?  Sure, I can save them to a file at post or read time
> but it would be nice if there were a way to do it automatically
> ala mailx's "record" facility.

Hi folks (again),

     Thanks to everybody who responded to my request for information.
The winner is Derek Terveer (det@hawkmoon.mn.org) who points out that
the environment variable $NEWSARCHIVE directs postnews to save my
postings in the specified file:

	$ grep NEWSARCHIVE .profile
	NEWSARCHIVE=$HOME/my.postings ; export NEWSARCHIVE

The other suggestions related to changing the netnews sys file so
*all* outgoing postings (from everybody) could be saved; these
were not quite what I was looking for while $NEWSARCHIVE is *exactly*
what I wanted.

     Thanks again everybody,
     Steve

-- 
Steve Friedl  friedl@vsi.com
{uunet, attmail, ihnp4!amdcad!uport}!vsi!friedl