Update POD documentation (URLs).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Hochstein <thh@thh.name>

.yapfaqrc.sample

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+NNTPServer = 'localhost'
+NNTPUser   = ''
+NNTPPass   = ''
+Sender     = ''
+ConfigFile = 'yapfaq.cfg.sample'
+Program    = ''

ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,192 @@
+yapfaq 0.10 (unreleased)
+
+* Add: Charset definition.
+  Fixes #29.
+
+* Mark yapfaq.pl executable.
+
+* Change mail address.
+
+
+Version 0.9.1
+
+* Fix: Test mode: Add X-Supersedes only if Supersedes would be set.
+  Fixes #28.
+  Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sun Oct 31 18:42:52 2010 +0100
+
+
+Version 0.9
+
+* Drop use of Fcntl (not needed).
+  Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Tue Jun 15 22:30:11 2010 +0200
+
+* Changed packaging.
+  - Drop .yapfaqrc and yapfaq.cfg in favor of .yapfaqrc.sample
+    and yapfaq.cfg.sample; rename test.txt to sample.txt.
+  - Change contents of these files to reflect the new names.
+  - Update some defaults, change sample.txt contents to English.
+  - Add "INSTALLATION" chapter to documentation.
+  Fixes #7.
+  Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat May 15 19:16:40 2010 +0200
+
+* Change default Message-ID format.
+  Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat May 15 19:04:24 2010 +0200
+	
+* Change: Modify headers for test posts.
+  - Change MID so you can do multiple tests.
+  - Replace Supersedes with X-Supersedes so you do not delete
+    postings while testing.
+  - Add remark ("This is a test message.").
+  - Change documentation accordingly.
+  Fixes #6.
+  Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat May 15 17:22:20 2010 +0200
+
+* Change: Drop %LM from subject if Last-Modified is not found.
+  Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat May 15 16:36:52 2010 +0200
+
+
+Version 0.8.2
+
+* Fix: Accept leading/trailing whitespace for Last-modified pseudo header.
+  Fixes #5.
+  Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat May 15 16:32:58 2010 +0200
+
+
+Version 0.8.1
+
+* Fix broken implementation of "Program" in .yapfaqrc.
+  Fixes #4.
+  Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net>  2010-05-14 21:58:15
+
+
+Version 0.8
+
+* Documentation: Add Git repository and bug tracker.
+  Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu May 13 19:21:05 2010 +0200  
+
+* Making use of Getopt::Std's --help and --version.
+  Fixes #3.
+  Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu May 13 19:33:25 2010 +0200    
+
+* New: Add "Program" to .yapfaqrc.
+  Fixes #2.
+  Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu May 13 19:31:49 2010 +0200    
+
+* Change: Drop PGP support.
+  You may use tinews.pl from
+  ftp://ftp.tin.org/tin/tools/tinews.pl instead.
+  Fixes #1.
+  Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu May 13 19:24:44 2010 +0200    
+
+* Fix: Consistency check for MID-Format fixed (regexp).
+  Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 23:17:16 2010 +0200
+
+* New: MID-Format may now contain %t for a Unix timestamp.
+  %t will be replaced by the number of seconds since the epoch.
+  Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 23:18:04 2010 +0200    
+
+* Documentation changes
+  - Change sample yapfaq.cfg (mark optional settings).
+    Optional settings are mostly commented out.
+    Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 09:10:05 2010 +0200
+  - Fix: Add "-V", NNTPSERVER to documentation, add more examples.
+    Added examples for -s and -c.
+    Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 10:02:48 2010 +0200
+  - Add comments pointing to .yapfaqrc to source.
+    Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 10:10:28 2010 +0200
+
+* readconfig(): Add file name to verbose output.
+  Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 09:38:23 2010 +0200    
+
+* Change: Reset default for NNTPServer to "unset".
+  Since yapfaq fill fall back to Perl's build-in defaults,
+  that should be no problem; furthermore user may now
+  override this setting via .yapfaqrc without changing
+  the code.
+  Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 14 09:11:45 2010 +0200
+
+
+Version 0.7
+
+* Change: readconfig(): Make mid-format optional.
+  Set defaults for expires and mid-format when they're invalid
+  (defaults were already set in postfaq() if undefined).
+  Change documentation accordingly; make it more clear if
+  parameters are optional or mandatory.
+  Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Tue Apr 13 23:59:43 2010 +0200
+
+* Fix: Save status information only after successful posting.
+  - New Function: updatestaus
+     Move status information save to updatestatus.
+  - post() now returns exit code.
+  - postfaq() will update status information only
+    when post() was successful.
+  Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat Apr 10 23:19:44 2010 +0200
+
+* New: Add option '-s': pipe article to script.
+  Use an external program to post - or otherwise handle -
+  the article.
+  Amend documentation.
+  Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat Apr 10 02:14:59 2010 +0200
+
+* New: runtime configuration
+  - Moved configuration to a hash (%Config).
+    Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 7 22:09:15 2010 +0200    
+  - Add rcfile (.yapfaqrc) for configuration.
+    All configuration data is read from .yapfaqrc
+    with defaults set in yapfaq.pl
+    Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat Apr 10 22:02:24 2010 +0200
+  - Add sample .yapfaqrc with defaults.
+    Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Wed Apr 7 23:16:20 2010 +0200    
+  - Add option '-c': define another .rcfile.
+    Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Apr 8 07:41:43 2010 +0200
+  - Update documentation for .rcfile.
+    Add the according sections to the POD documentation.
+    Fix some wording.
+    Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat Apr 10 02:17:00 2010 +0200
+
+* Small changes.
+  -t CONSOLE: Change delimiter.
+  No leading \n is necessary.
+  Add some more comments.
+  Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat Apr 10 01:43:19 2010 +0200
+
+* Add option '-V': print version and copyright information.
+  Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Apr 8 07:36:11 2010 +0200
+
+* Change: -h: Replace version/usage information with man page.
+  Feed script to perldoc when called with -h.
+  Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Apr 8 06:21:05 2010 +0200
+
+* Change: Authenticate only if $NNTPUser is set.
+  Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Sat Apr 10 00:49:24 2010 +0200
+
+* Add check for MID-Format and fallback to FQDN.
+  Uses hostfqdn from Net::Domain.
+  Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Apr 8 08:33:01 2010 +0200
+
+* Add checks for mandatory content in configuration file.
+  Enhance and optimize existing checks.
+  Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Apr 8 08:30:21 2010 +0200
+
+* Code optimisation (verbose output).
+  Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Thu Apr 8 08:00:04 2010 +0200
+
+
+Version 0.6.2
+
+* Fix default for Expires.
+  Bug introduced in v0.6.1.
+  Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Fri Feb 26 09:29:01 2010 +0100
+
+
+Version 0.6.1
+
+* Fix: Test mode must not update status information.
+  Also fix runtime warning concerning expires.
+  Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> Fri Feb 26 08:28:06 2010 +0100
+
+  
 Version 0.6
 
 * Add documentation in POD format.

README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# yapfaq
+
+**yapfaq** can post FAQs from text files to Usenet at configurable intervals and automatically adds the necessary headers.
+
+## Description
+
+With **yapfaq**, FAQs or other texts can be posted regularly (every x days, weeks, months or years) to one or more newsgroups. Posting frequency as well as the necessary headers - including the format of the `Message-ID:` headers that will be generated - can be defined in a configuration file. `Expires:` and `Supersedes:` will be set automatically by the script.
+
+The text can either be posted via NNTP or piped to another programme (like `inews` or `tinews.pl`).
+
+## More information
+
+Please see the [distribution page](https://th-h.de/net/software/yapfaq/) (in German).

sample.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+Last-modified: 2010-05-15
+
+This is a test message.
+
+Foo.
+
+Bar.
+
+That's quite enought, isn't it?

test.txt

@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-Last-modified: 2003-01-11
-
-Dies ist ein Test-Artikel. Klasse, was?
-
-Bla.
-
-Noch mehr foo.
-
-Bar.
-
-Nu reicht's.

yapfaq.cfg.sample

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 # name of your project
-Name = 'testpost'
+Name = 'sample'
 
 # file to post (complete body and pseudo-headers)
 # ($File.cfg contains data on last posting and last MID)
-File = 'test.txt'
+File = 'sample.txt'
 
 # how often your project should be posted
 # use (d)ay OR (w)eek OR (m)onth OR (y)ear
@@ -11,10 +11,11 @@ Posting-frequency = '1d'
 
 # time period after which the posting should expire
 # use (d)ay OR (w)eek OR (m)onth OR (y)ear
-Expires = '3m'
+# This setting is optional. Default: 3m
+# Expires = '3m'
 
 # header "From:"
-From = 'test@domain.invalid'
+From = 'John Doe <john-doe@example.com>'
 
 # header "Subject:"
 # (may contain "%LM" which will be replaced by the contents of the
@@ -26,16 +27,24 @@ Subject = 'test noreply ignore'
 NGs = 'de.test'
 
 # header "Followup-To:"
-Fup2 = 'poster'
+# This setting is optional. Default: unset
+# Fup2 = 'poster'
 
 # Message-ID ("%n" is $Name)
-MID-Format = '<%n-%d.%m.%y@domain.invalid>'
+# This setting is optional. Default: <%n-%y-%m-%d@YOURHOST>
+# MID-Format = '<%n-%y-%m-%d@domain.invalid>'
+
+# Character Encoding
+# This setting is optional. Default: UTF-8
+# Charset = ISO-8859-15
 
 # Supersede last posting?
+# This setting is optional. Default: unset
 Supersede = yes
 
 # extra headers (appended verbatim)
 # use this for custom headers like "Approved:"
+# This setting is optional. Default: unset
 ExtraHeader = 'Approved: moderator@domain.invalid
 X-Header: Some text'
 

yapfaq.pl

@@ -1,73 +1,80 @@
 #! /usr/bin/perl -W
 #
-# yapfaq Version 0.6 by Thomas Hochstein
+# yapfaq Version 0.10 by Thomas Hochstein
 # (Original author: Marc Brockschmidt)
 #
 # This script posts any project described in its config-file. Most people
 # will use it in combination with cron(8).
 # 
 # Copyright (C) 2003 Marc Brockschmidt <marc@marcbrockschmidt.de>
-# Copyright (c) 2010 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net>
+# Copyright (c) 2010-2017 Thomas Hochstein <thh@thh.name>
 #
 # It can be redistributed and/or modified under the same terms under 
 # which Perl itself is published.
 
-my $Version = "0.6";
+our $VERSION = "0.10";
 
-my $NNTPServer = "localhost";
-my $NNTPUser = "";
-my $NNTPPass = "";
-my $Sender = "";
-my $ConfigFile = "yapfaq.cfg";
-my $UsePGP = 0;
+# Please do not change this setting!
+# You may override the default .rc file (.yapfaqrc) by using "-c .rc file"
+my $RCFile = '.yapfaqrc';
+# Valid configuration variables for use in a .rc file
+my @ValidConfVars = ('NNTPServer','NNTPUser','NNTPPass','Sender','ConfigFile','Program');
 
-################################## PGP-Config #################################
+################################### Defaults ###################################
+# Please do not change anything in here!
+# Use a runtime configuration file (.yapfaqrc by default) to override defaults.
+my %Config = (NNTPServer => "",
+              NNTPUser   => "",
+              NNTPPass   => "",
+              Sender     => "",
+              ConfigFile => "yapfaq.cfg",
+              Program    => "");
 
-my $pgp	          = '/usr/bin/pgp';            # path to pgp
-my $PGPVersion    = '2';                       # Use 2 for 2.X, 5 for PGP > 2.X and GPG for GPG
-
-my $PGPSigner     = '';                        # sign as who?
-my $PGPPass       = '';                        # pgp2 only
-my $PathtoPGPPass = '';	                       # pgp2, pgp5 and gpg
-
-
-my $pgpbegin  ='-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----';# Begin of PGP-Signature
-my $pgpend    ='-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----';  # End of PGP-Signature
-my $pgptmpf   ='pgptmp';                       # temporary file for PGP.
-my $pgpheader ='X-PGP-Sig';
-
-my @PGPSignHeaders = ('From', 'Newsgroups', 'Subject', 'Control',
-	'Supersedes', 'Followup-To', 'Date', 'Sender', 'Approved',
-	'Message-ID', 'Reply-To', 'Cancel-Lock', 'Cancel-Key',
-	'Also-Control', 'Distribution');
-
-my @PGPorderheaders = ('from', 'newsgroups', 'subject', 'control',
-	'supersedes', 'followup-To', 'date', 'organization', 'lines',
-	'sender', 'approved', 'distribution', 'message-id',
-	'references', 'reply-to', 'mime-version', 'content-type',
-	'content-transfer-encoding', 'summary', 'keywords', 'cancel-lock',
-	'cancel-key', 'also-control', 'x-pgp', 'user-agent');
-
-############################# End of Configuration #############################
+################################# Main program #################################
 
 use strict;
 use Net::NNTP;
+use Net::Domain qw(hostfqdn);
 use Date::Calc qw(Add_Delta_YM Add_Delta_Days Delta_Days Today);
-use Fcntl ':flock'; # import LOCK_* constants
 use Getopt::Std;
+$Getopt::Std::STANDARD_HELP_VERSION = 1;
 my ($TDY, $TDM, $TDD) = Today(); #TD: Today's date
 
+# read commandline options
 my %Options;
-getopts('hvpdt:f:', \%Options);
+getopts('Vhvpdt:f:c:s:', \%Options);
+# -V: print version / copyright information
+if ($Options{'V'}) {
+  print "$0 v $VERSION\nCopyright (c) 2003 Marc Brockschmidt <marc\@marcbrockschmidt.de>\nCopyright (c) 2010-2017 Thomas Hochstein <thh\@thh.name>\n";
+  print "This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.\n";
+  exit(0);
+}
+# -h: feed myself to perldoc
 if ($Options{'h'}) {
-  print "$0 v $Version\nUsage: $0 [-hvpd] [-t <newsgroups>] [-f <faq>]\n";
+  exec ('perldoc', $0);
   exit(0);
 };
+# -f: set $Faq
 my ($Faq) = $Options{'f'} if ($Options{'f'});
 
-my @Config;
-readconfig (\$ConfigFile, \@Config, \$Faq);
+# read runtime configuration (configuration variables)
+$RCFile = $Options{'c'} if ($Options{'c'});
+if (-f $RCFile) {
+  readrc (\$RCFile,\%Config);
+} else {
+  warn "$0: W: .rc file $RCFile does not exist!\n";
+}
 
+$Options{'s'} = $Config{'Program'} if (defined($Config{'Program'}) && $Config{'Program'} && !defined($Options{'s'}));
+
+# read configuration (configured FAQs)
+my @Config;
+readconfig (\$Config{'ConfigFile'}, \@Config, \$Faq);
+
+# for each FAQ:
+# - parse configuration
+# - read status data
+# - if FAQ is due: call postfaq()
 foreach (@Config) { 
   my ($LPD,$LPM,$LPY) = (01, 01, 0001);  #LP: Last posting-date
   my ($NPY,$NPM,$NPD);                   #NP: Next posting-date
@@ -75,11 +82,13 @@ foreach (@Config) {
   
   my ($ActName,$File,$PFreq,$Expire) =($$_{'name'},$$_{'file'},$$_{'posting-frequency'},$$_{'expires'});
   my ($From,$Subject,$NG,$Fup2)=($$_{'from'},$$_{'subject'},$$_{'ngs'},$$_{'fup2'});
-  my ($MIDF,$ReplyTo,$ExtHea)=($$_{'mid-format'},$$_{'reply-to'},$$_{'extraheader'});
+  my ($MIDF,$ReplyTo,$Charset,$ExtHea)=($$_{'mid-format'},$$_{'reply-to'},$$_{'charset'},$$_{'extraheader'});
   my ($Supersede)            =($$_{'supersede'});
 
+  # -f: loop if not FAQ to post
   next if (defined($Faq) && $ActName ne $Faq);
 	
+  # read status data
   if (open (FH, "<$File.cfg")) {
     while(<FH>){
       if (/##;; Lastpost:\s*(\d{1,2})\.(\d{1,2})\.(\d{2}(\d{2})?)/){
@@ -97,11 +106,12 @@ foreach (@Config) {
 
   ($NPY,$NPM,$NPD) = calcdelta ($LPY,$LPM,$LPD,$PFreq);
 
+  # if FAQ is due: get it out
   if (Delta_Days($NPY,$NPM,$NPD,$TDY,$TDM,$TDD) >= 0 or ($Options{'p'})) {
     if($Options{'d'}) {
 	  print "$ActName: Would be posted now (but running in simulation mode [$0 -d]).\n" if $Options{'v'};
 	} else {
-      postfaq(\$ActName,\$File,\$From,\$Subject,\$NG,\$Fup2,\$MIDF,\$ExtHea,\$Sender,\$TDY,\$TDM,\$TDD,\$ReplyTo,\$SupersedeMID,\$Expire);
+      postfaq(\$ActName,\$File,\$From,\$Subject,\$NG,\$Fup2,\$MIDF,\$Charset,\$ExtHea,\$Config{'Sender'},\$TDY,\$TDM,\$TDD,\$ReplyTo,\$SupersedeMID,\$Expire);
 	}
   } elsif($Options{'v'}) {
     print "$ActName: Nothing to do.\n";
@@ -110,6 +120,26 @@ foreach (@Config) {
 
 exit;
 
+#################################### readrc ####################################
+# Takes a filename and the reference to an array which contains the valid options
+
+sub readrc{
+  my ($File, $Config) = @_;
+
+  print "Reading $$File.\n" if($Options{'v'});
+
+  open FH, "<$$File" or die "$0: Can't open $$File: $!";
+  while (<FH>) {
+    if (/^\s*(\S+)\s*=\s*'?(.*?)'?\s*(#.*$|$)/) {
+      if (grep(/$1/,@ValidConfVars)) {
+        $$Config{$1} = $2 if $2 ne '';
+      } else {
+        warn "$0: W: $1 is not a valid configuration variable (reading from $$File)\n";
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
+
 ################################## readconfig ##################################
 # Takes a filename, a reference to an array, which will hold hashes with
 # the data from $File, and - optionally - the name of the (single) FAQ to post
@@ -118,9 +148,7 @@ sub readconfig{
   my ($File, $Config, $Faq) = @_;
   my ($LastEntry, $Error, $i) = ('','',0);
 
-  if($Options{'v'}) {
-    print "Reading configuration.\n";
-  }
+  print "Reading configuration from $$File.\n" if($Options{'v'});
 
   open FH, "<$$File" or die "$0: E: Can't open $$File: $!";
   while (<FH>) {
@@ -139,24 +167,37 @@ sub readconfig{
   #Check saved values:
   for $i (0..$i){
     next if (defined($$Faq) && defined($$Config[$i]{'name'}) && $$Config[$i]{'name'} ne $$Faq );
-    unless($$Config[$i]{'from'} =~ /\S+\@(\S+\.)?\S{2,}\.\S{2,}/) {
-      $Error .= "E: The From-header for your project \"$$Config[$i]{'name'}\" seems to be incorrect.\n"
+    unless(defined($$Config[$i]{'name'}) && $$Config[$i]{'name'} =~ /^\S+$/) {
+      $Error .= "E: The name of your project \"$$Config[$i]{'name'}\" is not defined or contains whitespaces.\n"
     }
-    unless($$Config[$i]{'ngs'} =~ /^\S+$/) {
-      $Error .= "E: The Newsgroups-header for your project \"$$Config[$i]{'name'}\" contains whitespaces.\n"
+    unless(defined($$Config[$i]{'file'}) && -f $$Config[$i]{'file'}) {
+      $Error .= "E: The file to post for your project \"$$Config[$i]{'name'}\" is not defined or does not exist.\n"
+    }
+    unless(defined($$Config[$i]{'from'}) && $$Config[$i]{'from'} =~ /\S+\@(\S+\.)?\S{2,}\.\S{2,}/) {
+      $Error .= "E: The From header for your project \"$$Config[$i]{'name'}\" seems to be incorrect.\n"
+    }
+    unless(defined($$Config[$i]{'ngs'}) && $$Config[$i]{'ngs'} =~ /^\S+$/) {
+      $Error .= "E: The Newsgroups header for your project \"$$Config[$i]{'name'}\" is not defined or contains whitespaces.\n"
+    }
+    unless(defined($$Config[$i]{'subject'})) {
+      $Error .= "E: The Subject header for your project \"$$Config[$i]{'name'}\" is not defined.\n"
     }
     unless(!$$Config[$i]{'fup2'} || $$Config[$i]{'fup2'} =~ /^\S+$/) {
-      $Error .= "E: The Followup-To-header for your project \"$$Config[$i]{'name'}\" contains whitespaces.\n"
+      $Error .= "E: The Followup-To header for your project \"$$Config[$i]{'name'}\" contains whitespaces.\n"
     }
-    unless($$Config[$i]{'posting-frequency'} =~ /^\s*\d+\s*[dwmy]\s*$/) {
+    unless(defined($$Config[$i]{'posting-frequency'}) && $$Config[$i]{'posting-frequency'} =~ /^\s*\d+\s*[dwmy]\s*$/) {
       $Error .= "E: The Posting-frequency for your project \"$$Config[$i]{'name'}\" is invalid.\n"
     }
-    unless($$Config[$i]{'expires'} =~ /^\s*\d+\s*[dwmy]\s*$/) {
-      $$Config[$i]{'expires'} = '3m'; # set default: 3 month
-	  warn "$0: W: The Expires for your project \"$$Config[$i]{'name'}\" is invalid - set to 3 month.\n";
+    unless(!$$Config[$i]{'expires'} || $$Config[$i]{'expires'} =~ /^\s*\d+\s*[dwmy]\s*$/) {
+      warn "$0: W: The Expires for your project \"$$Config[$i]{'name'}\" is invalid - set to 3 month.\n";
+      $$Config[$i]{'expires'} = '3m'; # set default (3 month) if expires is unset or invalid
+    }
+    unless(!$$Config[$i]{'mid-format'} || $$Config[$i]{'mid-format'} =~ /^<\S+\@(\S+\.)?\S{2,}\.\S{2,}>/) {
+      warn "$0: W: The Message-ID format for your project \"$$Config[$i]{'name'}\" seems to be invalid - set to default.\n";
+      $$Config[$i]{'mid-format'} = '<%n-%y-%m-%d@'.hostfqdn.'>'; # set default if mid-format is invalid
     }
-    $Error .= "-" x 25 . "\n" if $Error;
   }
+  $Error .= "-" x 25 . 'program terminated' . "-" x 25 . "\n" if $Error;
   die $Error if $Error;
 }
 
@@ -175,6 +216,21 @@ sub calcdelta {
   }
   return ($NYear, $NMonth, $NDay);
 }
+
+################################ updatestatus ###############################
+# Takes a MID and a status file name
+# and writes status information to disk
+
+sub updatestatus {
+  my ($ActName, $File, $date, $MID) = @_;
+  
+  print "$$ActName: Save status information.\n" if($Options{'v'});
+
+  open (FH, ">$$File.cfg") or die "$0: E: Can't open $$File.cfg: $!";
+  print FH "##;; Lastpost: $date\n";
+  print FH "##;; LastMID: $MID\n";
+  close FH;
+}
   
 ################################## postfaq ##################################
 # Takes a filename and many other vars.
@@ -182,23 +238,23 @@ sub calcdelta {
 # It reads the data-file $File and then posts the article.
 
 sub postfaq {
-  my ($ActName,$File,$From,$Subject,$NG,$Fup2,$MIDF,$ExtraHeaders,$Sender,$TDY,$TDM,$TDD,$ReplyTo,$Supersedes,$Expire) = @_;
+  my ($ActName,$File,$From,$Subject,$NG,$Fup2,$MIDF,$Charset,$ExtraHeaders,$Sender,$TDY,$TDM,$TDD,$ReplyTo,$Supersedes,$Expire) = @_;
   my (@Header,@Body,$MID,$InRealBody,$LastModified);
 
-  if($Options{'v'}) {
-    print "$$ActName: Preparing to post.\n";
-  }
+  print "$$ActName: Preparing to post.\n" if($Options{'v'});
   
   #Prepare MID:
   $$TDM = ($$TDM < 10 && $$TDM !~ /^0/) ? "0" . $$TDM : $$TDM;
   $$TDD = ($$TDD < 10 && $$TDD !~ /^0/) ? "0" . $$TDD : $$TDD;
+  my $Timestamp = time;
 
   $MID = $$MIDF;
+  $MID = '<%n-%y-%m-%d@'.hostfqdn.'>' if !defined($MID); # set to default if unset
   $MID =~ s/\%n/$$ActName/g;
   $MID =~ s/\%d/$$TDD/g;
   $MID =~ s/\%m/$$TDM/g;
   $MID =~ s/\%y/$$TDY/g;
-
+  $MID =~ s/\%t/$Timestamp/g;
 
   #Now get the body:
   open (FH, "<$$File");
@@ -206,7 +262,7 @@ sub postfaq {
     s/\r//;
     push (@Body, $_), next if $InRealBody;
     $InRealBody++ if /^$/;
-    $LastModified = $1 if /^Last-modified: (\S+)$/i;
+    $LastModified = $1 if /^Last-modified:\s*(\S+)\s*$/i;
     push @Body, $_;
   }
   close FH;
@@ -223,7 +279,9 @@ sub postfaq {
   my $wday = ("Sun","Mon","Tue","Wed","Thu","Fri","Sat")[$time[6]];
   my $year = (1900 + $time[5]);
   my $tz = $time[8] ? " +0200" : " +0100";
-  
+
+  $$Expire = '3m' if !$$Expire; # set default if unset: 3 month
+
   my ($expY,$expM,$expD) = calcdelta ($year,$month,$day,$$Expire);
   my $expmonthN = ("Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec")[$expM-1];
 
@@ -233,11 +291,22 @@ sub postfaq {
   #Replace %LM by the content of the news.answer-pseudo-header Last-modified:
   if ($LastModified) {
     $$Subject =~ s/\%LM/$LastModified/;
+  } else {
+    $$Subject =~ s/[<\[{\(]?\%LM[>\]}\)]?//;
   }
 
+  # Set Charset
+  $$Charset = 'UTF-8' if !$$Charset;
+  my $ContentType = sprintf('text/plain; charset=%s',$$Charset);
+
   # Test mode?
   if($Options{'t'} and $Options{'t'} !~ /console/i) {
     $$NG = $Options{'t'};
+    $MID =~ s/@/-$Timestamp-test@/g;
+    $$ExtraHeaders .= "\n" if $$ExtraHeaders;
+    $$ExtraHeaders .= "X-Supersedes: $$Supersedes\n" if $$Supersedes;
+    $$ExtraHeaders .= "X-yapfaq-Remark: This is only a test message.";
+    undef $$Supersedes;
   }
 
   #Now create the complete Header:
@@ -252,28 +321,24 @@ sub postfaq {
   push @Header, "Sender: $$Sender\n" if $$Sender;
   push @Header, "Mime-Version: 1.0\n";
   push @Header, "Reply-To: $$ReplyTo\n" if $$ReplyTo;
-  push @Header, "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15\n";
+  push @Header, "Content-Type: $ContentType\n";
   push @Header, "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n";
-  push @Header, "User-Agent: yapfaq/$Version\n";
+  push @Header, "User-Agent: yapfaq/$VERSION\n";
   if ($$ExtraHeaders) {
     push @Header, "$_\n" for (split /\n/, $$ExtraHeaders);
   }
 
-  my @Article = ($UsePGP)?@{signpgp(\@Header, \@Body)}:(@Header, "\n", @Body);
+  my @Article = (@Header, "\n", @Body);
+
+  # post article
+  print "$$ActName: Posting article ...\n" if($Options{'v'});
+  my $failure = post(\@Article);
   
-  if($Options{'v'}) {
-    print "$$ActName: Posting article ...\n";
+  if ($failure) {
+    print "$$ActName: Posting failed, ERROR.dat may have more information.\n" if($Options{'v'} && (!defined($Options{'t'}) || $Options{'t'} !~ /console/i));
+  } else {
+    updatestatus($ActName, $File, "$day.$month.$year", $MID) if !defined($Options{'t'});
   }
-  post(\@Article);
-
-  if($Options{'v'}) {
-    print "$$ActName: Save status information.\n";
-  }
-
-  open (FH, ">$$File.cfg") or die "$0: E: Can't open $$File.cfg: $!";
-  print FH "##;; Lastpost: $day.$month.$year\n";
-  print FH "##;; LastMID: $MID\n";
-  close FH;
 }
 
 ################################## post ##################################
@@ -283,198 +348,49 @@ sub postfaq {
 
 sub post {
   my ($ArticleR) = @_;
+  my ($failure) = -1;
 
-  # Test mode?
+  # test mode - print article to console
   if(defined($Options{'t'}) and $Options{'t'} =~ /console/i) {
-    print "\n-----BEGIN--------------------------------------------------\n";
-	print @$ArticleR;
-    print "\n------END---------------------------------------------------\n";
-	return;
-  }
-
-  my $NewsConnection = Net::NNTP->new($NNTPServer, Reader => 1)
-    or die "$0: E: Can't connect to news server '$NNTPServer'!\n";
-
-  $NewsConnection->authinfo ($NNTPUser, $NNTPPass);
-  $NewsConnection->post();
-  $NewsConnection->datasend (@$ArticleR);
-  $NewsConnection->dataend();
-
-  if (!$NewsConnection->ok()) {
-    open FH, ">>ERROR.dat";
-    print FH "\nPosting failed! Saving to ERROR.dat. Response from news server:\n";
-    print FH $NewsConnection->code();
-    print FH $NewsConnection->message();
-    print FH "\n";
-    print FH @$ArticleR;
-    print FH "-" x 80, "\n";
-    close FH;
-  }
-
-  $NewsConnection->quit();
-}
-
-#-------- sub getpgpcommand
-# getpgpcommand generates the command to sign the message and returns it.
-#
-# Receives:
-# 	- $PGPVersion: A scalar holding the PGPVersion
-sub getpgpcommand {
-  my ($PGPVersion) = @_;
-  my $PGPCommand;
-
-  if ($PGPVersion eq '2') {
-    if ($PathtoPGPPass && !$PGPPass) {
-      open (PGPPW, $PathtoPGPPass) or die "$0: E: Can't open $PathtoPGPPass: $!";
-      $PGPPass = <PGPPW>;
-      close PGPPW;
-    }
-  
-    if ($PGPPass) {
-      $PGPCommand = "PGPPASS=\"".$PGPPass."\" ".$pgp." -u \"".$PGPSigner."\" +verbose=0 language='en' -saft <".$pgptmpf.".txt >".$pgptmpf.".txt.asc";
+    print "-----BEGIN--------------------------------------------------\n";
+    print @$ArticleR;
+    print "------END---------------------------------------------------\n";
+  # pipe article to script
+  } elsif(defined($Options{'s'})) {
+    open (POST, "| $Options{'s'}") or die "$0: E: Cannot fork $Options{'s'}: $!\n";
+    print POST @$ArticleR;
+    close POST;
+    if ($? == 0) {
+      $failure = 0;
     } else {
-      die "$0: E: PGP-Passphrase is unknown!\n";
-    }
-  } elsif ($PGPVersion eq '5') {
-    if ($PathtoPGPPass) {
-      $PGPCommand = "PGPPASSFD=2 ".$pgp."s -u \"".$PGPSigner."\" -t --armor -o ".$pgptmpf.".txt.asc -z -f < ".$pgptmpf.".txt 2<".$PathtoPGPPass;
-    } else {
-      die "$0: E: PGP-Passphrase is unknown!\n";
-    }
-  } elsif ($PGPVersion =~ m/GPG/io) {
-    if ($PathtoPGPPass) {
-      $PGPCommand = $pgp." --digest-algo MD5 -a -u \"".$PGPSigner."\" -o ".$pgptmpf.".txt.asc --no-tty --batch --passphrase-fd 2 2<".$PathtoPGPPass." --clearsign ".$pgptmpf.".txt";
-    } else {
-      die "$0: E: Passphrase is unknown!\n";
+      warn "$0: W: $Options{'s'} exited with status ", ($? >> 8), "\n";
+      $failure = $?;
     }
+  # post article
   } else {
-    die "$0: E: Unknown PGP-Version $PGPVersion!";
-  }
-  return $PGPCommand;
-}
+    my $NewsConnection = Net::NNTP->new($Config{'NNTPServer'}, Reader => 1) or die "$0: E: Can't connect to news server '$Config{'NNTPServer'}'!\n";
+    $NewsConnection->authinfo ($Config{'NNTPUser'}, $Config{'NNTPPass'}) if (defined($Config{'NNTPUser'}));
+    $NewsConnection->post();
+    $NewsConnection->datasend (@$ArticleR);
+    $NewsConnection->dataend();
 
-
-#-------- sub signarticle
-# signarticle signs an articel and returns a reference to an array
-# 	containing the whole signed Message.
-#
-# Receives:
-# 	- $HeaderAR: A reference to a array containing the articles headers.
-# 	- $BodyR: A reference to an array containing the body.
-#
-# Returns:
-# 	- $MessageRef: A reference to an array containing the whole message.
-sub signpgp {
-  my ($HeaderAR, $BodyR) = @_;
-  my (@pgphead, @pgpbody, $pgphead, $pgpbody, $header, $signheaders, @signheaders, $currentheader, $HeaderR, $line);
-
-  foreach my $line (@$HeaderAR) {
-    if ($line =~ /^(\S+):\s+(.*)$/s) {
-      $currentheader = $1;
-      $$HeaderR{lc($currentheader)} = "$1: $2";
+    if ($NewsConnection->ok()) {
+      $failure = 0;
+    # Posting failed? Save to ERROR.dat
     } else {
-      $$HeaderR{lc($currentheader)} .= $line;
+	  warn "$0: W: Posting failed!\n";
+      open FH, ">>ERROR.dat";
+      print FH "\nPosting failed! Saving to ERROR.dat. Response from news server:\n";
+      print FH $NewsConnection->code();
+      print FH $NewsConnection->message();
+      print FH "\n";
+      print FH @$ArticleR;
+      print FH "-" x 80, "\n";
+      close FH;
     }
+    $NewsConnection->quit();
   }
-
-  foreach (@PGPSignHeaders) {
-    if (defined($$HeaderR{lc($_)}) && $$HeaderR{lc($_)} =~ m/^[^\s:]+: .+/o) {
-      push @signheaders, $_;
-    }
-  }
-
-  $pgpbody = join ("", @$BodyR);
-
-  # Delete and create the temporary pgp-Files
-  unlink "$pgptmpf.txt";
-  unlink "$pgptmpf.txt.asc";
-  $signheaders = join(",", @signheaders);
-
-  $pgphead = "X-Signed-Headers: $signheaders\n";
-  foreach $header (@signheaders) {
-    if ($$HeaderR{lc($header)} =~ m/^[^\s:]+: (.+?)\n?$/so) {
-      $pgphead .= $header.": ".$1."\n";
-    }
-  }
-
-  open(FH, ">" . $pgptmpf . ".txt") or die "$0: E: can't open $pgptmpf: $!\n";
-  print FH $pgphead, "\n", $pgpbody;
-  print FH "\n" if ($PGPVersion =~ m/GPG/io);	# workaround a pgp/gpg incompatibility - should IMHO be fixed in pgpverify
-  close(FH) or warn "$0: W: Couldn't close TMP: $!\n";
-
-  # Start PGP, then read the signature;
-  my $PGPCommand = getpgpcommand($PGPVersion);
-  `$PGPCommand`;
-
-  open (FH, "<" . $pgptmpf . ".txt.asc") or die "$0: E: can't open ".$pgptmpf.".txt.asc: $!\n";
-  $/ = "$pgpbegin\n";
-  $_ = <FH>;
-  unless (m/\Q$pgpbegin\E$/o) {
-#    unlink $pgptmpf . ".txt";
-#    unlink $pgptmpf . ".txt.asc";
-    die "$0: E: $pgpbegin not found in ".$pgptmpf.".txt.asc\n"
-  }
-  unlink($pgptmpf . ".txt") or warn "$0: W: Couldn't unlink $pgptmpf.txt: $!\n";
-
-  $/ = "\n";
-  $_ = <FH>;
-  unless (m/^Version: (\S+)(?:\s(\S+))?/o) {
-    unlink $pgptmpf . ".txt";
-    unlink $pgptmpf . ".txt.asc";
-    die "$0: E: didn't find PGP Version line where expected.\n";
-  }
-  
-  if (defined($2)) {
-    $$HeaderR{$pgpheader} = $1."-".$2." ".$signheaders;
-  } else {
-    $$HeaderR{$pgpheader} = $1." ".$signheaders;
-  }
-  
-  do {          # skip other pgp headers like
-    $_ = <FH>;  # "charset:"||"comment:" until empty line
-  } while ! /^$/;
-
-  while (<FH>) {
-    chomp;
-    last if /^\Q$pgpend\E$/;
-    $$HeaderR{$pgpheader} .= "\n\t$_";
-  }
-  
-  $$HeaderR{$pgpheader} .= "\n" unless ($$HeaderR{$pgpheader} =~ /\n$/s);
-
-  $_ = <FH>;
-  unless (eof(FH)) {
-    unlink $pgptmpf . ".txt";
-    unlink $pgptmpf . ".txt.asc";
-    die "$0: E: unexpected data following $pgpend\n";
-  }
-  close(FH);
-  unlink "$pgptmpf.txt.asc";
-
-  my $tmppgpheader = $pgpheader . ": " . $$HeaderR{$pgpheader};
-  delete $$HeaderR{$pgpheader};
-
-  @pgphead = ();
-  foreach $header (@PGPorderheaders) {
-    if ($$HeaderR{$header} && $$HeaderR{$header} ne "\n") {
-      push(@pgphead, "$$HeaderR{$header}");
-      delete $$HeaderR{$header};
-    }
-  }
-
-  foreach $header (keys %$HeaderR) {
-    if ($$HeaderR{$header} && $$HeaderR{$header} ne "\n") {
-      push(@pgphead, "$$HeaderR{$header}");
-      delete $$HeaderR{$header};
-    }
-  }
-
-  push @pgphead, ("X-PGP-Key: " . $PGPSigner . "\n"), $tmppgpheader;
-  undef $tmppgpheader;
-
-  @pgpbody = split /$/m, $pgpbody;
-  my @pgpmessage = (@pgphead, "\n", @pgpbody);
-  return \@pgpmessage;
+  return $failure;
 }
 
 __END__
@@ -487,7 +403,7 @@ yapfaq - Post Usenet FAQs I<(yet another postfaq)>
 
 =head1 SYNOPSIS
 
-B<yapfaq> [B<-hvpd>] [B<-t> I<newsgroups> | CONSOLE] [B<-f> I<project name>]
+B<yapfaq> [B<-Vhvpd>] [B<-t> I<newsgroups> | CONSOLE] [B<-f> I<project name>] [B<-s> I<program>] [B<-c> I<.rc file>]
 
 =head1 REQUIREMENTS
 
@@ -523,7 +439,8 @@ headers as defined in its config file (by default F<yapfaq.cfg>).
 
 F<yapfaq.cfg> consists of one or more blocks, separated by C<=====> on
 a single line, each containing the configuration for one FAQ as a set
-of definitions in the form of I<param = value>.
+of definitions in the form of I<param = value>. Everything after a "#"
+sign is ignored so you may comment your configuration file.
 
 =over 4
 
@@ -551,7 +468,7 @@ or I<B<m>onths> or I<B<y>ears>.
 
 This value must be set.
 
-=item B<Expires> = I<time period>
+=item B<Expires> = I<time period> (optional)
 
 The period of time after which your message will expire. An Expires
 header will be calculated adding this time period to today's date.
@@ -559,7 +476,7 @@ header will be calculated adding this time period to today's date.
 You can declare this  time period either in I<B<d>ays> or I<B<w>weeks>
 or I<B<m>onths> or I<B<y>ears>.
 
-This setting is optional; the default  is 3 months.
+This setting is optional; the default is 3 months.
 
 =item B<From> = I<author>
 
@@ -585,32 +502,45 @@ appear in the Newsgroups header of the message.
 
 This value must be set.
 
-=item B<Fup2> = I<newsgroup | poster>
+=item B<Fup2> = I<newsgroup | poster>  (optional)
 
 A comma-separated list of newsgroup(s) or the special string I<poster>
 as it will appear in the Followup-To header of the message.
 
 This setting is optional.
 
-=item B<MID-Format> = I<pattern>
+=item B<MID-Format> = I<pattern>  (optional)
 
 A pattern from which the message ID is generated as it will appear in
 the Message-ID header of the message.
 
 You may use the special strings C<%n> for the I<Name> of your project,
-C<%d> for the date the message is posted, C<%m> for the month and
-C<%y> for the year, respectively.
+C<%d> for the date the message is posted, C<%m> for the month, C<%y>
+for the year and C<%t> for a time stamp (number of seconds since the
+epoch), respectively.
 
-This value must be set.
+This setting is optional; the default is '<%n-%y-%m-%d@I<YOURHOST>>'
+where I<YOURHOST> is the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the
+host B<yapfaq> is running on. Obviously that will only work if you
+have defined a reasonable hostname that the hostfqdn() function of
+Net::Domain can return.
 
-=item B<Supersede> = I<yes>
+=item B<Charset> = I<encoding>  (optional)
+
+The character encoding of your FAQ. This setting is optional, but
+should match the encoding of your FAQ B<File>. Default is set to
+I<UTF-8>.
+
+This setting is copied verbatim to the I<Content-Type> header.
+
+=item B<Supersede> = I<yes>  (optional)
 
 Add Supersedes header to the message containing the Message-ID header
 of the last posting.
 
 This setting is optional; you should set it to yes or leave it out.
 
-=item B<ExtraHeader> = I<additional headers>
+=item B<ExtraHeader> = I<additional headers>  (optional)
 
 The contents of I<ExtraHeader> is added verbatim to the headers of
 your message so you can add custom headers like Approved.
@@ -619,7 +549,7 @@ This setting is optional.
 
 =back
 
-=head2 Example configuration file
+=head3 Example configuration file
 
     # name of your project
     Name = 'testpost'
@@ -634,7 +564,7 @@ This setting is optional.
     
     # time period after which the posting should expire
     # use (d)ay OR (w)eek OR (m)onth OR (y)ear
-    Expires = '3m'
+    # Expires = '3m'
     
     # header "From:"
     From = 'test@domain.invalid'
@@ -649,10 +579,14 @@ This setting is optional.
     NGs = 'de.test'
     
     # header "Followup-To:"
-    Fup2 = 'poster'
+    # Fup2 = 'poster'
     
     # Message-ID ("%n" is $Name)
-    MID-Format = '<%n-%d.%m.%y@domain.invalid>'
+    # MID-Format = '<%n-%d.%m.%y@domain.invalid>'
+    
+    # Character Encoding
+    # This setting is optional. Default: UTF-8
+    # Charset = ISO-8859-15
     
     # Supersede last posting?
     Supersede = yes
@@ -675,19 +609,96 @@ This setting is optional.
     MID-Format = '<%n-%m.%y@domain.invalid>'
     Supersede = yes
 
+=head3 Status Information
+
 Information about the last post and about how to form message IDs for
 posts is stored in a file named F<I<project name>.cfg> which will be
 generated if it does not exist. Each of those status files will
 contain two lines, the first being the date of the last time the FAQ
 was posted and the second being the message ID of that incarnation.
 
+=head2 Runtime Configuration
+
+Apart from configuring which FAQ(s) to post you may (re)set some
+runtime configuration variables via the .rcfile (by default
+F<.yapfaqrc>). F<.yapfaqrc> must contain one definition in the form of
+I<param = value> on each line; everything after a "#" sign is ignored.
+
+If you omit some settings they will be set to default values hardcoded
+in F<yapfaq.pl>.
+
+B<Please note that all parameter names are case-sensitive!>
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<NNTPServer> = I<NNTP server> (mandatory)
+
+Host name of the NNTP server to post to. Must be set (or omitted; the
+default is "localhost"); if set to en empty string, B<yapfaq> falls
+back to Perl's build-in defaults (contents of environment variables
+NNTPSERVER and NEWSHOST; if not set, default from Net::Config; if not
+set, "news" is used).
+
+=item B<NNTPUser> = I<user name> (optional)
+
+User name used for authentication with the NNTP server (I<AUTHINFO
+USER>).
+
+This setting is optional; if it is not set, I<NNTPPass> is ignored and
+no authentication is tried.
+
+=item B<NNTPPass> = I<password> (optional)
+
+Password used for authentication with the NNTP server (I<AUTHINFO
+PASS>).
+
+This setting is optional; it must be set if I<NNTPUser> is present.
+
+=item B<Sender> = I<Sender header> (optional)
+
+The Sender header that will be added to every posted message.
+
+This setting is optional.
+
+=item B<ConfigFile> = I<configuration file> (mandatory)
+
+The configuration file defining the FAQ(s) to post. Must be set (or
+omitted; the default is "yapfaq.cfg").
+
+=item B<Program> = I<file name> (optional)
+
+A program the article is piped to instead of posting it to Usenet.
+See option "-f" below (which takes preference).
+
+This setting is optional.
+
+=back
+
+=head3 Example runtime configuration file
+
+    NNTPServer = 'localhost'
+    NNTPUser   = ''
+    NNTPPass   = ''
+    Sender     = ''
+    ConfigFile = 'yapfaq.cfg'
+    Program    = ''
+
+=head3 Using more than one runtime configuration
+
+You may use more than one runtime configuration file with the B<-c>
+option (see below).
+
 =head1 OPTIONS
 
 =over 3
 
+=item B<-V> (version)
+
+Print out version and copyright information on B<yapfaq> and exit.
+
 =item B<-h> (help)
 
-Print out version and usage information on B<yapfaq> and exit.
+Print this man page and exit.
 
 =item B<-v> (verbose)
 
@@ -707,11 +718,16 @@ update any status information.
 =item B<-t> I<newsgroup(s) | CONSOLE> (test)
 
 Don't post to the newsgroups defined in F<yqpfaq.cfg>, but to the
-newsgroups given after B<-t> as a comma-separated list or print the
-FAQs to STDOUT separated by lines of dashes if the special string
-C<CONSOLE> is given.  This can be used to preview what B<yapfaq> would
-do without embarassing yourself on Usenet.  The status files are not
-updated when this option is given.
+(test) newsgroup(s) given after B<-t> as a comma-separated list or
+print the FAQs to STDOUT separated by lines of dashes if the special
+string C<CONSOLE> is given.  This can be used to preview what
+B<yapfaq> would do without embarassing yourself on Usenet. 
+
+The status files are not updated when this option is given.
+
+When this option is used to post to some other newsgroup(s), a(nother)
+timestamp is added to the Message-ID header and the Supersedes header
+is replaced by a special X-Supersedes header.
 
 You may want to use this with the B<-f> option (see below).
 
@@ -726,6 +742,39 @@ will be posted unconditionally. That may not be what you want to
 achieve, so you can limit the operation of B<yapfaq> to the named FAQ
 only.
 
+=item B<-s> I<program> (pipe to script)
+
+Instead of posting the article(s) to Usenet pipe them to the external
+I<program> on STDIN (which may post the article(s) then). A return
+value of 0 will be considered success.
+
+For example, you may want to use the I<inews> utility from the INN package
+or the much more powerful replacement I<tinews.pl> from
+I<ftp://ftp.tin.org/tin/tools/tinews.pl> which is able to sign postings.
+
+If I<Program> is also defined in the runtime configuration file (by default
+F<.yapfaqrc>), B<-s> takes preference.
+
+=item B<-c> I<.rc file>
+
+Load another runtime configuration file (.rc file) than F<.yaofaq.rc>.
+
+You may for example define another usenet server to post your FAQ(s)
+to or load another configuration file defining (an)other FAQ(s).
+
+=back
+
+=head1 INSTALLATION
+
+Just copy the contents of the tarball in some directory and get started.
+
+You can post your first test with
+
+    yapfaq -c .yapfaqrc.sample
+
+or copy F<.yapfaqrc.sample> to F<.yapfaqrc> and F<yapfaq.cfg.sample>
+to F<yapfaq.cfg>, edit those files and get really started!
+
 =back
 
 =head1 EXAMPLES
@@ -748,9 +797,26 @@ if it is due:
 
     yapfaq -t de.test -f myfaq
 
+Post all FAQs (that are due for posting) using inews from INN:
+
+    yapfaq -s inews
+
+Do a dry run using a runtime configuration from .alternaterc, showing
+which FAQs would be posted:
+
+    yapfaq -dvc .alternaterc
+
 =head1 ENVIRONMENT
 
-There are no special environment variables used by B<yapfaq>.
+=over 4
+
+=item NNTPSERVER
+
+The default NNTP server to post to, used by the Net::NNTP module. You
+can also  specify the server using the runtime configuration file (by
+default F<.yapfaqrc>).
+
+=back
 
 =head1 FILES
 
@@ -760,6 +826,10 @@ There are no special environment variables used by B<yapfaq>.
 
 The script itself.
 
+=item F<.yapfaqrc>
+
+Runtime configuration file for B<yapfaq>.
+
 =item F<yapfaq.cfg>
 
 Configuration file for B<yapfaq>.
@@ -777,26 +847,29 @@ the last post of that FAQ.
 
 =head1 BUGS
 
-Many, I'm sure.
+Please report any bugs or feature requests to the author or use the
+bug tracker at L<https://code.virtcomm.de/thh/yapfaq/issues>!
 
 =head1 SEE ALSO
 
-L<http://th-h.de/download/scripts.php> will have the current
+L<https://th-h.de/net/software/yapfaq/> will have the current
 version of this program.
 
+This program is maintained using the Git version control system at
+L<https://code.virtcomm.de/thh/yapfaq/>.
+
 =head1 AUTHOR
 
-Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net>
+Thomas Hochstein <thh@thh.name>
 
-Original author (until version 0.5b from 2003):
+Original author (up to version 0.5b, dating from 2003):
 Marc Brockschmidt <marc@marcbrockschmidt.de>
 
-
 =head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
 
 Copyright (c) 2003 Marc Brockschmidt <marc@marcbrockschmidt.de>
 
-Copyright (c) 2010 Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net>
+Copyright (c) 2010-2017 Thomas Hochstein <thh@thh.name>
 
 This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
 under the same terms as Perl itself.