From: utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!tim Newsgroups: net.flame Title: Re: "Oops" Article-I.D.: unc.4776 Posted: Tue Mar 15 12:42:59 1983 Received: Tue Mar 22 08:28:54 1983 References: dadla-b.376 I'm so sick of seeing that inane "Ooops - no text editor" on articles. If your version of postnews doesn't call a text editor, then the obvious thing to do is write the article as a text file with an editor, and say "sendnews < file". (Obviously, you have to substitute in your own program and file names.) I have no respect for anyone who doesn't feel strongly enough about the worth of their article to go to the very small additional trouble of doing this. Alternately, it is the very essence of simplicity to write a short shell script that calls up an editor on a temporary file, posts news according to the command-line options, and removes the temporary file. Please take the trouble to make what you post more pleasant for your intended audience. Tim Maroney