I have been trying to find help on uploading attachments
to binary news groups, such as alt.binaries.movies and
have found little. Most of the people I have talked to
in the chat rooms are windows users, which is no help at
all. If someone could help me with the Linux end of this
I would be extremely grateful.

I use pan but it has no attachment feature when posting
messages, which I suppose is how it should be. So I'm
guessing there is a script or something somewhere that
does this. I don't know. (:

I have a number of movies that I have ripped and would
like to help out in the news groups.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:55:40 -0600,
Widgeteye <Widgeteye@widgets.com> wrote:
>
> I have been trying to find help on uploading attachments
> to binary news groups, such as alt.binaries.movies and
> have found little.

I think newspost will do what you want. It's in 9.1's n/ disk series.


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Widgeteye tempted the fates in alt.os.linux.slackware
by rushing in here and proclaiming the following to be true:

> I have been trying to find help on uploading attachments
> to binary news groups, such as alt.binaries.movies and
> have found little. Most of the people I have talked to
> in the chat rooms are windows users, which is no help at
> all. If someone could help me with the Linux end of this
> I would be extremely grateful.

Sure thing.

> I use pan but it has no attachment feature when posting
> messages,

Yup.
There's been talks, in the works, that posting binaries is an "upcoming"
feature, but that's been the same for the last few releases. =)

> which I suppose is how it should be. So I'm
> guessing there is a script or something somewhere that
> does this. I don't know. (:

There is, it's called newspost.[1]
It's now part of the 9.1 release.

Quite some time back I wrote a "HOWTO" for it (albeit an older version.)

Posting to Usenet with 'newspost' HOW-TO
<URL:http://www.slack.net/~hermit/HOWTO/newspost_howto.html>

I explain everything well enough so that even tho some of the switches have
changed or new ones have been added, it's still applicable.
(I wrote it for a *doze user, so there's alot of hand-holding.)

> I have a number of movies that I have ripped and would
> like to help out in the news groups.

Now, I'm not suggesting that you do anything illegal: That would be wrong.
However, if you /do/ plan on posting anything that's still under copyright,
be sure you know how to cover your ass *before* you start postin'.

Security FAQ: C.Y.A
<URL:http://ebook.23ae.com/documents/security.html>

> Thanks

You're welcome.

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On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:55:40 -0600, Widgeteye wrote:


> I have been trying to find help on uploading attachments to binary news
> groups, such as alt.binaries.movies and have found little. Most of the
> people I have talked to in the chat rooms are windows users, which is no
> help at all. If someone could help me with the Linux end of this I would
> be extremely grateful.
>
> I use pan but it has no attachment feature when posting messages, which
> I suppose is how it should be. So I'm guessing there is a script or
> something somewhere that does this. I don't know. (:
>
> I have a number of movies that I have ripped and would like to help out
> in the news groups.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
The mozilla mail client will send file attachments. Setup the newsgroup
account and then compose a message, as you would a normal email message.

Use alt.binaries.test or another appropriate group for testing.

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Douglas Mayne

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 16:15:12 +0000, Mark Hill wrote:


>> I have been trying to find help on uploading attachments
>> to binary news groups, such as alt.binaries.movies and
>> have found little.
>
> I think newspost will do what you want. It's in 9.1's n/ disk series.

That did it thanks a lot.

begin quote: +Cibao+ wrote:
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> Security FAQ: C.Y.A
><URL:http://ebook.23ae.com/documents/security.html>
>

Nice. Very nice. My compliments to the chef.

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than that" -- The Roadie, in NANAE