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@@ -9,7 +9,13 @@ innduct \- quickly and reliably stream Usenet articles to remote site
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .B innduct
 implements NNTP peer-to-peer news transmission including the streaming
-extensions, for sending news articles to a remote site.
+extensions, for sending news articles to a remote site.  It is
+intended as a replacement for
+.I innfeed
+or
+.IR nntpsend
+and
+.IR innxmit .
 
 You need to run one instance of innduct for each peer site.  innduct
 manages its interaction with innd, including flushing the feed as
@@ -20,11 +26,10 @@ locking necessary to avoid multiple simutaneous invocations.
 By default, innduct reads the default feedfile corresponding to
 the site
 .I site
-(is
+(ie
 .IR pathoutgoing / site )
 and feeds it via NNTP, streaming if possible, to the host
 .IR fqdn .
-
 If
 .I fqdn
 is not specified, it defaults to
@@ -35,10 +40,10 @@ error messages) are sent to syslog (facility
 .BR news ).
 
 The best way to run innduct is probably to periodically invoke innduct
-for each feed (e.g. from cron), passing innduct it the
+for each feed (e.g. from cron), passing the
 .B \-q
-option to arrange that it silently exits if an innduct is already
-running for that site.
+option to arrange that innduct silently exits if an instance is
+already running for that site.
 .SH INNDUCT VS INNFEED/NNTPSEND/INNXMIT
 .TP
 .B innfeed