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From: RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
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Subject: Piping to comp.misc.  A revised script.
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 20:44:48 +0000 (UTC)
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Here's a revised script.  It prompts for whether the post will go to
comp.misc or to misc.news.internet.discuss.  It then prompts for a
single group to which to crosspost (or none).  If there is a crosspost,
it automatically prefixes the title with [CM] to permit the users in the
other group to filter out this kind of post, and sets the follow-up to
that group rather than comp.misc.

Hope it prompts some of you into action.  It amazes me that on a
newsgroup that's had nothing but robospam and roboporn for 5+ years, a
guy posting links to tech articles be accused of spamming.  Only on
Usenet are the trolls immortal. I resolve to not feed them.

As before, this script is the glue between newsbeuter and postnews.py

#! /usr/local/bin/bash

TEMPTEXT='/tmp/slashtemptext'
TEMPHEADERS='/tmp/slashtempheaders'
TEMPARTICLE='/tmp/slashtemparticle'
DEPT=''
SUBJ=''
XPOST=''
GROOP=''

# CLEAN UP THIS MESS
for i in $TEMPTEXT $TEMPHEADERS $TEMPARTICLE 
	do 
	echo "Nuking $i"
	if [ -e $i ]; then rm $i; fi
	done

#SPAFF THE TEXT FROM NEWSBEUTER
while read line;
do
	echo "$line" >> $TEMPTEXT
done

# THE BASICS
echo "From: Obnoxious Troll <whine@usenet.com>" > $TEMPHEADERS
echo "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8" >> $TEMPHEADERS

echo ""
echo "This is going to Usenet.  Enter Subject line:"
read SUBJ < /dev/tty

# SET TITLE, FOLLOW-UP, AND GROUP BASED ON USER CHOICES
echo ""
echo "Send to comp.misc or misc.news.internet.discuss?"
echo "[C] comp.misc     [M] m.n.i.d."
read SENDTO < /dev/tty

case $SENDTO in
	[cC]) GROOP='comp.misc' ;;
	[mM]) GROOP='misc.news.internet.discuss' ;;
esac

echo ""
echo "Crosspost?  Type one additional group or ENTER for none."  
echo "Follow-up will also be set: eg. misc.rabid.bunnies,comp.obnoxious.troll"
read XPOST < /dev/tty

if  [ "$XPOST" != "" ];
	then
		SUBJ="[CM] ${SUBJ}"
		GROOP="$GROOP,$XPOST"
		echo "Subject: $SUBJ" >> $TEMPHEADERS
		echo "Followup-To: $XPOST" >> $TEMPHEADERS
	else
		echo "Subject: $SUBJ" >> $TEMPHEADERS
fi
		
echo "Newsgroups: $GROOP" >> $TEMPHEADERS

echo ""
echo "From which dept? (eg. Happy go Lucky). I'll add the quotes."
read DEPT < /dev/tty

echo "" >> $TEMPHEADERS
echo "From the «$DEPT» department:" >> $TEMPHEADERS
cat $TEMPHEADERS $TEMPTEXT > $TEMPARTICLE
echo "----"
less $TEMPARTICLE

exec postnews --user USERNAME pass MYPASSWORD -f $TEMPARTICLE MYNSP