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View Poll Results: What is your favorite editor?
vi ( or a clone thereof ) 27 77.14%
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Other 0 0%
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Old 02-04-2002
With regard to the sidebar on MSWORD and the news article, here is my reply, as requested:

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It is not important what I think, what is important is what the people whom I communicate (and work with) think and use. I must communicate in formats that they use in their business operations. For most large companies, that means: MSWORD, ASCII, ASCII/HTML, POWERPOINT, EXCEL, PDF, FLASH. Most of these formats are vendor proprietary and they all are 'de facto' standards in the business world. I don't dictate to people how to commuicate, I accept and create communications in their format because the goal is to [I] communicate[I]. I don't think it is wise to allow personal bias to stand in the way of communications.
I'm not a supporter of (IT) religious wars and jihads either and don't find any userfulness in them. Bashing products and companies has little value. If two people want to communicate using the "foo" format, then that is their choice, freedom and right. Cooperation is based on mutual gain. Obviously applications like MSWORD, PPT, and XLS have a broad base of users who like to use them.... they do have a choice, many choices.
 
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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT

mailpost

MAILPOST(1)						      General Commands Manual						       MAILPOST(1)

NAME

       mailpost - feed an email message into a news group

SYNOPSIS

       mailpost [ -r addr ] [ -f addr ] [ -a addr ] [ -d distribution ] [ -m mailing-list ] [ -b database ] newsgroups

DESCRIPTION

       The mailpost program reads a properly formatted email message from stdin and feeds it to inews for posting to a news server. Before feeding
       the article to inews it checks that the article has not been seen before, and it changes some headers (cleans some address headers  up  and
       puts ``X-'' in front of unknown headers).

       If the article has been seen before (mailpost records the message-id of all articles is handles), the the article will be silently dropped.
       Other errors will cause the article to be mailed to the newsmaster.

       Normally mailpost is run by sendmail via an alias entry:

	      local-mail-wreck-bikes: "|<PREFIX specified with --prefix at configure>/bin/mailpost
		       -d local local.mail.rec.bicycles.racing"

       newsgroups cannot be multiple groups.  Only one newsgroup name is allowed.

OPTIONS

       -r     If the ``-r'' flag is used the program will use the given address as the Path header, if no other value can be determined.

       -f     The ``-f'' flag is a synonym for the ``-r'' flag.

       -a     If the ``-a'' flag is used the value given is added to the article as an Approved header.

       -d     If the ``-d'' flag is used the value given is added to the article as a Distribution header.

       -m     If the ``-m'' flag is used the value given is added to the articles in a Mailing-List  header,  if  a  Mailing-List  header  doesn't
	      already exist.

       -b     IF  the ``-b'' flag is used, then it defines the location of the database used to store the message ids of articles sent on. This is
	      to prevent articles looping around if a news to mail gateway sends them back here. This option  may  be  required  if  the  mailpost
	      process doesn't have write access to the news tmp directory (the value of pathtmp in inn.conf(5).

HISTORY

       Written by Paul Vixie long ago and then hacked up by James Brister for INN integration.	This is revision 1.2.2.3, dated 2001/09/22.

FILES

       <pathdb in inn.conf>/mailpost-msgid.db  database file

BUGS

       Is lacking in configurability.

SEE ALSO

       active(5), inn.conf(5), nnrpd(8), wildmat(3).

																       MAILPOST(1)