Personally, I just write up my FAQ posting in a text file which I
keep saved. Every month, I do the small edits it requires, and then
connect to my news server with telnet. (e.g.
"telnet news.cyberport.com 119") Then I speak NNTP directly to the
server (ain't the Internet great?) to post the message. NNTP is
very simple in this regard: connect to the server, type "POST", hit
Enter, send your message, hit a dot on an empty line, and then say
"QUIT".
The same basic process works for email. A typical SMTP session,
for example, looks like this (">" is stuff you type, "<" is what a
server might send back -- the specifics of that half of the
conversation are not all that important):
>telnet mail.cyberport.com 25
<blah blah blah...ESMTP spoken here...
>HELO cyberport.com
<Hi there, cyberport.com.
>MAIL FROM: tangent@cyberport.com
<Okay.
>RCPT TO: somehoser@fooisp.com
<Spiffy.
>DATA
<Lay it on me.
>Subject: Hey, man!
>
>This is a message. Nice, eh?
>.
<Sent yer message.
>QUIT
<Bye, bye.... <click>
Easy, no? Try sending some email to yourself, or even making a test
posting to alt.test or misc.test.
= Warren -- http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent