Documentation/public-inbox-init.pod | 2 +-
 script/public-inbox-init            | 2 +-
 t/init.t                            | 4 ++--

diff --git a/Documentation/public-inbox-init.pod b/Documentation/public-inbox-init.pod
index ea2b38dd27dbf60ccbe52ce4c0dde29435cf80ae..31c5f743edb818dc8edf1d0abdf9558eef0260d7 100644
--- a/Documentation/public-inbox-init.pod
+++ b/Documentation/public-inbox-init.pod
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ Available since public-inbox 1.6.0 (PENDING).
 
 Default: none.
 
-=item -N, --skip-artnum
+=item --skip-artnum
 
 This option allows archivists to publish incomplete archives
 with only new mail while allowing NNTP article numbers
diff --git a/script/public-inbox-init b/script/public-inbox-init
index 90b32be8e2e46f033e7a40acc36a8e81542079b1..b19c2321ae22a72202f3db2d6c986b24d3b91cdc 100755
--- a/script/public-inbox-init
+++ b/script/public-inbox-init
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ my %opts = (
 	'V|version=i' => \$version,
 	'L|index-level|indexlevel=s' => \$indexlevel,
 	'S|skip|skip-epoch=i' => \$skip_epoch,
-	'N|skip-artnum=i' => \$skip_artnum,
+	'skip-artnum=i' => \$skip_artnum,
 	'j|jobs=i' => \$jobs,
 	'ng|newsgroup=s' => \$ng,
 	'help|?' => \$show_help,
diff --git a/t/init.t b/t/init.t
index 6211bb58fba8b12a43cc786255e629c28c51d95d..4d2c50496fc92b15bdf7b95521c77d0c58d10905 100644
--- a/t/init.t
+++ b/t/init.t
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ 	xsys(qw(git config), "--file=$ENV{PI_DIR}/config",
 			'publicinboxmda.spamcheck', 'none') == 0 or
 			BAIL_OUT "git config $?";
 	my $addr = 'skip3@example.com';
-	$cmd = [ qw(-init -V2 -Lbasic -N12 skip3), "$tmpdir/skip3",
+	$cmd = [ qw(-init -V2 -Lbasic --skip-artnum=12 skip3), "$tmpdir/skip3",
 		   qw(http://example.com/skip3), $addr ];
 	ok(run_script($cmd), '--skip-artnum -V2');
 	my $env = { ORIGINAL_RECIPIENT => $addr };
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ 	is($n, 13, 'V2 NNTP article numbers skipped via --skip-artnum');
 
 	$addr = 'skip4@example.com';
 	$env = { ORIGINAL_RECIPIENT => $addr };
-	$cmd = [ qw(-init -V1 -N12 -Lmedium skip4), "$tmpdir/skip4",
+	$cmd = [ qw(-init -V1 --skip-artnum 12 -Lmedium skip4), "$tmpdir/skip4",
 		   qw(http://example.com/skip4), $addr ];
 	ok(run_script($cmd), '--skip-artnum -V1');
 	$err = '';