This is a "passive" news transmission client.  It queries
other servers for news with NEWNEWS and gets it via the article
command.

No docs, sorry.  It's unsupported (like the rest of the stuff is???).
Read the source code.

Originally written by Brian Kantor <brian@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu>, with some
bug fixes by Ambar <ambar@athena.mit.edu>.