Sending news from mail

[Norman Walsh <norm@berkshire.net>]

Hello World,

Let me start by saying, I know this may be a little wierd.  For
performance reasons, I don't try to read news with nntp from my
ISP.  Instead, I run a script on my ISP's telnet machine which
uses nntp to collect up all the news I might want to read, build
spool files out of it, and compress it.  I download the
compressed file, unpack it into my ~/.incoming directory, and
let GNUS populate my nnml directories with it.

This works great...until I want to send an article.  Then I
create a foreign nntp group, load a couple of articles from it,
and post my message.  Then I delete the group, etc.  Luckily, I
don't post news all that often, what can I say, I lurk a lot ;-)

For several months now (basically since I started doing this
;-), I've known there must be a better way.  Can someone point
me to it?  RTFM is a perfectly reasonable response, but it would
help if the applicable FM was identified ;-)

--norm