[TriLUG] How to automate nntp posts?

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 11:22, bp wrote:
> I have a few items to sell on triangle.forsale that i'd like to post once  
> a week.  I was hoping that I could script this process..  No luck with 
> mail or tin so far.  
> 
> Hoping for something in the ballpark of:
>  	cat item1.txt|mail -s "FS: item #1" triangle.forsale
> 

If you are a python hacker, you might want to grab the source code to
mailman, as it has a mailing list to NNTP gateway.  You could use the
NTTP module from there perhaps.  You might even just be able to use
mailman as is, by creating a local "list" for yourself that then
gateways to NTTP.  Yeah, a hack, but if it it works it works.

Then again, this is definitely considered spam for triangle.forsale.  I
wouldn't recommend it; you'll likely find yourself killfiled if not
reported to your ISP.

--Jeremy, longtime triangle.* member

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