Maybe I even knew this in an earlier life already, but I just
accidently ran across the little detail that lynx(1)
is also capable of both reading and posting news articles via
NNTP.
A quick test, posted via lynx, ingested via inews, transfered
via UUCP via tcp6 between two Cnews hosts, displayed via
trn(1):
ds.test #48 (1)
Xref: marshlabs.gaertner.de gds.test:48
Newsgroups: gds.test
Path: marshlabs.gaertner.de!gaertner.de!usenet
From: neitzel@marshlabs.gaertner.de
Subject: test
Sender: usenet@gaertner.de (Mr. News)
Organization: marshlabs
Message-ID: <q9po79.FD3@gaertner.de>
X-Nntp-Posting-Host: hackett.marshlabs.gaertner.de
Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 15:54:45 GMT
one
two
tree
End of article 48 (of 48) -- what next? [npq]
For security reasons and old age, trn strips off any 8-bit and control characters (by default) and cannot cope with UTF-8 or any other multi-byte encodings (by design). Maybe lynx is a light-weight, terminal-based aid in these cases. Initial testing shows: perhaps, but not right away. (There are many lynx encoding knobs to fiddle around with.)