If you want to publicly respond to a news article, then you post
what's called a "followup" article.  Here's how to do a test followup
post in the misc.test newsgroup.  If you don't need to do a world-wide
test, replace misc.test with your host's test newsgroup, usually named
`host.test'.

Prompt                           Type      In Order To...
======                           ====      ==============
<within nn>                      G         Use the Go command
Group or Folder (+./~ %=sneNbB)  misc.test Specify the misc.test group
Number of articles (juasne) (j)  RET       Jump to the group
<menu mode>                      a         Select article a
<menu mode>                      Z         Go into reading mode
<reading article a>              f         Followup
Include original article?        y (or n)  Include (or don't include) the 
                                           article
<your editor>                    <text>    (There must be a completely
                                           blank line between the headers 
                                           and body.)
                                 <exit ed>


You'll then see this prompt:
  a)bort c)c e)dit h)old m)ail r)eedit p)ost v)iew w)rite
  Action: (post article)

If this were a real followup rather than a test, you might want to
send a "carbon copy" or "courtesy copy" to the person you are
responding to by using the `c' command.  To just post the article
press the RET key.

If everything is working, you'll see these two lines:

  Be patient! Your new article will not show up immediately.
  Article posted

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