Re: Programatically send a news message to a newsgroup pre-filling in Subject and Body

On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 04:04:01PM -0700, nospamjones <at> fastmail.fm wrote:
> 
> Is is possible to programmatically send a news message through a command
> line or scripting using slrm to talk to the news group?  We have some
> internal newsgroups to our company, and we would like to generate a
> message to a particular group when we make a software build.  We would
> like to populate the Subject and the Body from a batch file (Using
> Windows 2000).
> 
Yes, just create the message in a file, put it in the directory where
slrnpull stores it's outgoing messages and call slrnpull --post-only.

Also, you'll have to configure slrnpull, of course.

For more details, see the documentation.

Good luck,
Jurriaan

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