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case $# in
0)
ng=h
while $test "$ng" = h ; do
$echo ""
$echo $n "Newsgroup(s): $c"
read ng
case $ng in
h)
$cat <<'EOH'
Type the name of one or more newsgroups to which you wish to post an article.
If you want to post to multiple newsgroups, it is better to do them all at
once than to post to each newsgroup individually, which defeats the news
reading programs' strategies of eliminating duplicates.
Separate multiple newsgroup names with commas.
EOH
;;
esac
done
;;
*)
ng=$1
shift
;;
esac
case $ng in
*\ *)
ng=`$echo "$ng" | $sed 's/[, ] */,/g'`
;;
esac
case $ng in
net.*|mod.*|comp.*|news.*|sci.*|rec.*|misc.*|soc.*|talk.*)
defdist=world
dist=h
;;
*.*)
defdist=`expr "X$ng" : 'X\([a-z0-9]*\)'`
dist=h
;;
*)
defdist=''
dist=''
;;
esac
while $test "$dist" = h ; do
if $test -f $lib/distributions; then
$echo " "
$echo "Your local distribution prefixes are:"
$cat $lib/distributions
$echo " "
else
$egrep -v '[ ]none$' <<EOM
Your local distribution prefixes are:
Local organization: $loc
Organization: $org
City: $city
$stpr: $state
Country: $cntry
Continent: $cont
Everywhere: world
EOM
fi
$echo $n "Distribution ($defdist): $c"
read dist
case $dist in
'') dist=$defdist ;;
esac
case $dist in
h)
$cat <<'EOH'
The Distribution line may be used to limit the distribution of an article
to some subset of the systems that would receive the article based only on
the Newsgroups line. For example, if you want to sell your car in talk.auto,
and you live in New Jersey, you might want to put "nj" on the Distribution
line to avoid advertising in California, which has enough problems of its own.
The actual area designators to use depend on where you are, of course.
EOH
;;
''|$loc*|$org*|$city*|$state*|$cntry*|$cont*|$defdist)
;;
net*|world*|comp*|news*|sci*|rec*|misc*|soc*|talk*)
dist=''
;;
*)
if $test -f $lib/distributions && \
$egrep "^$dist[ ]" $lib/distributions >$tmpart && \
$test -s $tmpart; then
: null
else
$echo "Unrecognized distribution prefix--type h for help, CR to use anyway."
defdist=$dist
dist=h
fi
;;
esac
done
# Force the first newsgroup to be specified as a followup-to
follow=`echo "$ng" | sed 's/,.*//'`
case $# in
0)
title=h
while $test "$title" = h ; do
$echo ""
$echo $n "Title/Subject: $c"
read title
case $title in
h)
$cat <<'EOH'
Type the title for your article. Please make it as informative as possible
(within reason) so that people who aren't interested won't have to read the
article to find out they aren't interested. This includes marking movie
spoilers as (spoiler), and rotated jokes as (rot 13).
EOH
;;
esac
done
;;
*)
title="$*"
;;
esac
# now build a file with a header for them to edit
set X ${USER-${LOGNAME-`who am i`}}
shift
logname=$1
case $logname in
*!*) logname=`expr "$logname" : '!\(.*\)$'` ;;
esac
case ${NAME-$nametype} in
bsd)
fullname=`$sed </etc/passwd -e "/^$logname:/{s/^[^:]*:[^:]*:[^:]*:[^:]*:\([^,:;]*\).*"'$'"/\1/" -e "q" -e "}" -e "d"`
case $fullname in
*'&'*) : GACK
lname=`$echo $logname | $tr 'a-z' 'A-Z'`
lname=`$echo $lname $logname | $sed 's/^\(.\)[^ ]* ./\1/'`
fullname=`$echo "$fullname" | $sed "s/&/${lname}/"`
;;
esac
;;
usg)
fullname=`$sed </etc/passwd -e "/^$logname:/{s/^[^:]*:[^:]*:[^:]*:[^:]*:\([^(:]*\).*"'$'"/\1/" -e "s/^.*-//" -e "q" -e "}" -e "d"`
;;
*)
fullname=${NAME-`$cat $dotdir/.fullname`}
;;
esac
orgname=${ORGANIZATION-$orgname}
case $orgname in
/*) orgname=`$cat $orgname` ;;
esac
$cat > $tmpart <<EOHeader
Newsgroups: $ng
Subject: $title
Expires:
References:
Sender:
Followup-To: $follow
Distribution: $dist
Organization: $orgname
Keywords:
EOHeader