Subject: Posting Mail to a Newsgroup

From: [email-masked] (Joseph C. Larkin)
Date: 5 Mar 1996 20:26:31 GMT

Is is possible in pine to take a received mail message and
post it to a newsgroup? It could be done by saving to a file
and then attaching the file to the posting, but is there a 
way to do it in less steps?

Joe Larkin

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 12:33:41 +0000 (GMT)

ANY message you receive (or indeed compose) can be sent using e-mail, 
Usenet News or both.

When you forward, reply-to or compose your article ONE of the two headers 
"To:" or "Newsgroups:" will be completed (depending on whether Pine 
thinks you are currently reading mail or news).

If you leave things like this the message will be sent ONLY to that 
collection of people (the person being e-mailed (EXCLUSIVE-)OR the 
newsgroup).

However you can quite easily put the cursor on any header line and type 
^R (Rich Headers) to see *all* the available headers.  Thus you can add a 
"To:" (e-mail address) to a Usenet News article or a "Newsgroups:" list 
to an e-mail message and have the result simultaneously to both e-mail 
and News.

In your particular case....

1.  View the e-mail message you have received.
2.  Use "F" to start a "Forward".
3.  Use ^R to show all headers and fill in the newsgroup name(s) in the
    "Newsgroups:" header field.
4.  Fill in the "To:" field as well only if you want a copy e-mailing to 
    someone too.
5.  Modify the Subject and message text as appropriate.
6.  Send.

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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From: [email-masked] (Margrete Raaum)
Date: 6 Mar 1996 11:40:04 GMT

>way to do it in less steps?

Forward it. 
If newsgroups is not a visible option, type ^R while in header.

Mrg

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From: Nevin Kapur <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 19:07:17 GMT

> way to do it in less steps?

If you use Pine for news reading/posting too, then you could just forward 
the mail and fill in the newsgroup in the header so that the message is 
posted to a newsgroup rather than mailed.

Nevin.

  NEVIN KAPUR * Electrical Engineering * Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay
	  http://ee.iitb.ernet.in/~nevin, [email-masked]