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[BIG] N1P2 Newsreader - By Request
# File Name: N1P2.newsreader # File Size in BYTES: 23488 # Sender/Author/Poster: nate@loreli.ftl.fl.us (Sean Puckett) # Subject: [BIG] N1P2 Newsreader - By Request # Archived: Apr 29 12:09 1994 # # Here is my newsreader, N1P2, posted by request. From the file # header: #
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# File Name: mailclip # File Size in BYTES: 25771 # Sender/Author/Poster: friedman@bnr.ca (Barry Friedman) # Subject: Mailclip was Re: Newsclip? # Archived: Apr 29 02:16 1994 # # Mailclip reads the clip output and produces a formatted compendium # of all articles clipped. Then it reads a list of recipients from # the file specified in $MLIST and mails them a copy. The lines in # $MLIST are of the form: #
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# File Name: news.posting.keywords.pl # File Size in BYTES: 1900 # Sender/Author/Poster: mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Mark-Jason Dominus) # Subject: Automatic Keywords # Archived: Apr 29 02:16 1994 # # The enclosed program generates `Keywords:' lines for your mail messages # and news posts. It accepts as arguments a number of keywords to # generate (default is 4) and a list of files to select keywords from #
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# File Name: newser.pl # File Size in BYTES: 15494 # Sender/Author/Poster: jolomo@netcom.com (Joe Morris) # Subject: newser - acc. news browser # Archived: Apr 29 02:16 1994 # # $Id: newser,v 1.16 1993/12/02 20:20:10 joe Exp $ # Perl program that treats those accumulated News and Mail files as # a sort of database. #
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newscan - a Perl Network News scanner script
# File Name: newsscan # File Size in BYTES: 50278 # Sender/Author/Poster: jfm@cadhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (John F. McGowan) # Subject: newscan - a Perl Network News scanner script # Archived: Apr 29 02:16 1994 # # Below is the source code for newscan, a Perl script for # searching selected Internet newsgroups for articles containing matches to # Perl regular expressions. newscan can also veto articles containing # other matches. The source contains an embedded manual page following the # convention in Programming Perl by Randal Schwarz. The manpage is in nroff # at the end of the source. #
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# File Name: prn-1.09.tar.Z.uu # File Size in BYTES: 32404 # Sender/Author/Poster: tshiono@cv.sony.co.jp (Toru SHIONO) # Subject: Re: ? Newsreader in perl # Archived: Apr 29 02:16 1994 # # :: Lately I've written an NNTP based newsreader in curseperl, # :Could you post it? # As there were some requests, please let me post it here: #
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patch for prn (Perl news reader)
# File Name: prn.patch # File Size in BYTES: 2953 # Sender/Author/Poster: tshiono@cv.sony.co.jp (Toru SHIONO) # Subject: patch for prn (Perl news reader) # Archived: Apr 29 02:16 1994 # # A couple of weeks before I posted here a small newsreader written in # curseperl. After that I found some bugs to be fixed. Here's the patch: #
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sys2gup - convert from C News sys-Files to gup dirs 4 with INN
# File Name: sys2gup # File Size in BYTES: 2842 # Sender/Author/Poster: hwr@pilhuhn.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp) # Subject: sys2gup - convert from C News sys-Files to gup dirs 4 with INN # Archived: Apr 29 02:16 1994 # # this is my first version of sys2gup, a script, which converts from C # News sys-files to the directories used by gup when running INN. The # script does a conversion from sys to newsfeeds format. It is f*ucking # slow, as the grep is slow - any suggestions to increase speed are # welcome. #
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Perl source creates INN's unwanted groups
# File Name: unwanted.inn.tool # File Size in BYTES: 2046 # Sender/Author/Poster: devin@epicycle.lm.com (Tod McQuillin) # Subject: Perl source creates INN's unwanted groups # Archived: Apr 29 02:16 1994 # # unwanted 1.0 - offer to create unwanted newsgroups from INN's news.daily # and summarise and offer to create the "Top unwanted newsgroups" #
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update 'min' and 'max' fields in 'active' file
# File Name: updminmax.upact.pl # File Size in BYTES: 8041 # Sender/Author/Poster: dhesi@rahul.net (Rahul Dhesi) # Subject: update 'min' and 'max' fields in 'active' file # Archived: Apr 29 02:16 1994 # # Update min and max fields in active file. Based on ideas in # two shell scripts that come with C-News. This program # gets newsgroup names from the active file, gets the article numbers # from the spool directory for each newsgroup, and corrects the min # and max fields in the active file. It is useful for keeping the #
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uudconc - a perl uudecoding utility for multiple target files.
# File Name: uudconc.pl # File Size in BYTES: 12080 # Sender/Author/Poster: vigs2@nic.cerf.net (Rick Schlientz) # Subject: uudconc - a perl uudecoding utility for multiple target files. # Archived: Apr 29 02:16 1994 # # This script is used to uudecode files that are all strung together in one # long file. I came up with the idea for the script from my news use - I'm # always saving all the binary files into one big news save file (because #
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# File Name: Psig # File Size in BYTES: 4578 # Sender/Author/Poster: king@rtsg.mot.com (Steven King, Software Archaeologist) # Subject: Re: Random .sigs? # Archived: Oct 12 1993 # # Synopsis: Psig newsgroup [Pnews-parms] # (Though this should only be called from a newsreader...) # Selects a signature based on the current newsgroup. Psig will # read the News directory tree in the user's home directory #
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Regex News - scan news for multiple keywords/users (compressed)
# File Name: RegEx.News.tar.Z # File Size in BYTES: 22174 # Archived: Sep 23 1993 # # RegEx News - multi user news scanning utility # # Tarred and compressed binary file #
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# File Name: RegEx.News.tar.Z.uue # File Size in BYTES: 32725 # Sender/Author/Poster: # Subject: # Archived: Aug 31 1993 # # Here's a little ditty that we've been running for awhile, called # RegEx News. As you might guess, it scans all of USENET for articles # with interesting regular expressions (keywords). It then allows #
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brn, a newsreader for dos and dumb terminals
# File Name: brn.bak # File Size in BYTES: 21380 # Sender/Author/Poster: budi # Subject: brn - newsreader for DOS # Archived: Apr 6 1993 # #
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# File Name: chklength.pl # File Size in BYTES: 3187 # Sender/Author/Poster: bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell) # Subject: Re: Unbatcher Out of Sync? # Archived: Jul 30 1993 # # That aside, the problem is that characters have been # dropped/added in the incoming batch file. Each article has a # header of the form: # where the 1885 above is the length of the article, thus I should # be able to seek ahead 1885 characters and find another header: #
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# File Name: choosenews.pl # File Size in BYTES: 15937 # Sender/Author/Poster: brooks@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Brooks Smith) # Subject: choosenews I # Archived: Mar 5 1993 # # Choosenews -- written by Brooks David Smith sometime in 1991 # I noticed recently that Scott Yanoff has posted choose news II here and # there. I thought some of you might be interested in seeing choosenews I. # It grew out of an expressed need of our novice users when confronted with # the large number of sometimes obscurely named newsgroups available. #
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Cleanup your .newsrc with this handy tool by spaf
# File Name: clean.newsrc.spaf # File Size in BYTES: 5262 # Sender/Author/Poster: spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) # Subject: Re: Perl .newsrc cleanup script? # Archived: Oct 10 1993 # # This takes as argument the .newsrc file and the news/lib/active file. # It updates all the range lists in newsgroup lines, and sorts them # according to a prespecified order (see the pattern list). Then it # writes out a new copy with ! lines at the end. #
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# File Name: cleanup.newsrc.oneliner # File Size in BYTES: 1510 # Sender/Author/Poster: merlyn@ora.com (Randal L. Schwartz) # Subject: Re: Perl .newsrc cleanup script? # Archived: Oct 9 1993 # #
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clip, search newsspool for your regexp(s)
# File Name: clip # File Size in BYTES: 16069 # Sender/Author/Poster: lwall and tchrist # Subject: clip - scan usenet and report to single user # Archived: Apr 6 1993 # #
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dlhunter (v 2.02) automated news binary extraction utility
# File Name: csmisc.dl # File Size in BYTES: 42427 # Sender/Author/Poster: middle@cse.uta.edu (William Middleton) # Subject: v31i070: dlhunter - news binary extraction utility v2.02, Part01/01 # Archived: Apr 6 1993 # #
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deadgroups: tell which groups aren't being used
# File Name: deadgroups.pl # File Size in BYTES: 6295 # Sender/Author/Poster: koreth@spud.Hyperion.COM (Steven Grimm) # Subject: deadgroups.pl -- Scan for unused newsgroups # Archived: Apr 6 1993 # # deadgroups.pl v2.0 93/03/14 koreth@hyperion.com # Figure out which newsgroups aren't being used on your system. Scans through # the news active file to get a list of groups, then sees which groups are # being read (by looking at users' .newsrc files) and fed (by looking through # the newsfeeds file). #
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fetch-news a personal news transfer engine -- testers neeeded.
# File Name: fetchnews.info # File Size in BYTES: 40759 # Sender/Author/Poster: muir@idiom.berkeley.ca.us (David Muir Sharnoff) # Subject: fetch-news a personal news transfer engine -- testers neeeded. # #
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# File Name: fixnewsrc.tar.z # File Size in BYTES: 4668 # Archived: Jun 17 1993 # # Large tool for repairing/improving your newsrc # Compressed binary file #
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Re: Reading MOTD but only once.
# File Name: news.pl # File Size in BYTES: 1572 # Sender/Author/Poster: dcs@neutron.chem.yale.edu (Dave Schweisguth) # Subject: Re: Reading MOTD but only once. # Archived: Oct 3 1993 # # And, if it must be Perl (the header suggests so), I've written a 'news' in # Perl. It's at neutron.chem.yale.edu in /pub/news.tar.Z. #
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# File Name: pInews.beta.pl # File Size in BYTES: 20754 # Sender/Author/Poster: pat@jaameri.gsfc.nasa.gov (patrick m. ryan) # Subject: pInews (beta), a Perl NNTP posting program # Archived: Jun 14 1993 # # Included below is the beta version of my Perl NNTP posting # program, pInews. Please let me know if it works for you. #
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perl arbitron for news group readership
# File Name: parbitron # File Size in BYTES: 4323 # Sender/Author/Poster: ? # Subject: News Arbitron written in perl # Archived: Apr 6 1993 # # #
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Re: feeding only local postings in INN
# File Name: sendbatches.in.perl # File Size in BYTES: 2060 # Sender/Author/Poster: Christophe.Wolfhugel@grasp.insa-lyon.fr # Subject: Re: feeding only local postings in INN # Archived: Aug 17 1993 # # In your newsfeeds entry: # Read newsfeeds(5) for details regarding the exclusions. #
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# File Name: usenet.death.penalty # File Size in BYTES: 2839 # Sender/Author/Poster: rsalz@uunet.uu.net (Rich Salz) # Subject: Usenet Death Penalty # Archived: Aug 18 1993 # # Cancel wars seem to be on the rise. It's too bad people aren't more # mature -- it's on the same level as urinating in the public swimming # pool. At the risk of adding to the amount of waste, here is what some # might consider to be the final word on the matter. It's a Perl script # intended to be run as a real-time feed by INN. It should be able to # cancel articles within seconds after they hit your site. #
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