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Usenet Archiver
Back in the dark ages, when Compuserve and Usenet were the authoritative source for all things, and before newsgroups became swamped by Spam posts and bots, I knocked up a Perl Script to fetch and archive a couple of useful groups to use as future references.
What it Does
Extracts newsgroup thread titles from a group specified on the command-line and will optionally save new posts (header and body) to a local XML file. (this XML file can then be post-processed using XSL into other formats)
Generates an index file (XML) of posts found for the given newsgroup and can optionally mark read posts as read so they dont need to be fetched again (using a standard Newsrc.txt file)
What it Doesnt do
This isnt a fully-fledged newsreader, its intended to be used as a digest builder of new topics (ie ignoring replies (which constitute the majority of most group posts). Therefore, features that arent supported are...
- handle multipart posts
- handle attachments/binaries
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