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| POSTING
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|         Posting is the means by which you distribute an article to usenet.
| There are three supported ways of posting in tknews, which are accessed
| through the commands "Post", "Followup", and "Followup-Context".  Both the
| Followup and Followup-Context commands require a reference article, which
| is taken to be the current article you are viewing in the newsreader.  Thus,
| it is not possible to post a followup outside of a newsgroup (since there
| is no reference article to associate with).  The "Post" command does not
| require a reference article, and thus can be used even outside of any
| particular newsgroup.  Followup and Followup-Context are essentially the
| same, but a Followup-Context command will include the reference article's
| message body for you.
| 
|         In order to post, you must have your VISUAL environment variable
| set to something which can run under X windows.  Emacs will do this,
| as well as xedit, and aXe.  However, many editors will not run under
| X Windows, but instead require a terminal.  An example would be vi.
| The solution to this problem is to set your VISUAL environment variable
| to run your editor inside of an xterm.  For example, like this :
| 
| setenv VISUAL 'xterm -e vi'
| 
|         If your VISUAL environment variable is not set, the newsreader
| will attempt to use emacs as a default.
| 
|         When the editor window comes up after selecting the Post command,
| you will see a few lines of information, possibly followed by a quoted
| message body (if you are doing a Followup-Context).  See the ARTICLE 
| FIELDS subsection below for information on how to fill in these lines.
| 
|         Once you have filled in the header information and composed your
| reply, save the file and exit your editor.  After a brief moment, the
| newsreader will create a popup window which will ask for confirmation
| on posting the new article.  If you select cancel, the article will
| be discarded.  If you select confirm, the new article will be posted.
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| ARTICLE FIELDS
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| 
| The following fields are blank for all posting types :
| 
| "Summary:"      This field should contain a brief summary of your article.
| "Followup-To:"  This field designates the newsgroup(s) that followup articles
|                 should post to.  You should only fill this in if you wish
|                 to encourage others to direct their posts to another forum.
| "Distribution:" This field indicates the kind of distribution you feel your
|                 article should have.  Some possible values are "osu", "usa",
|                 or "world".
| "Keywords:"     This field should list some keywords which might help someone
|                 searching for articles pertaining to certain topics.  
| 
|         For the "Post" command, you may have to fill in the following
| addional fields :
| 
| "Newsgroups:"   This field designates which newsgroups your article should be
|                 distributed to.  This field may already have a value if you 
|                 selected the "Post" command from within a newsgroup.
| "Subject:"      This is where you place the title of your new article.
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