This is the Perl 5 News-Scan distribution. It requires perl version 5.004 or later.
This distribution provides a mechanism for collecting articles from a set of Usenet newsgroups and then creating statistical reports about those groups.
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This release of News-Scan is incompatible with prior releases. This should be considered alpha-quality software, so the internal implementation is subject to change without notice, although I will only make incompatible changes only when absolutely necessary.
To use NewsScan, you need to have installed the following packages:
TimeDate-#.#
MailTools.#
IO-.##
If you want to collect articles from an NNTP server, you'll also need to install
libnet-#.##
Install NewsScan by running the following commands:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make install
Please see the eg/ directory after you have unpacked the distribution for examples of using this library to gather and report statistics for Usenet newsgroups.
Please send any suggestions, bug reports, complaints, et cetera to Greg Bacon <gbacon@hiwaay.net>.
This software is based on Mike Lee's <mikey@ontek.com> posters distribution and also on software posted to comp.lang.perl.misc by Christian Murphy <cpm@muc.de>.
Many, many thanks are also in order to Gary Niemcewicz <gniemcew@dti.net> for all his helpful thoughts, comments, and bug reports.
Chaim Frenkel <chaimf@cris.com> has also contributed immensely with his extremely helpful comments, suggestions, and questions.
Thanks to Henrik Gemal, Gerrit P. Haase, and Oyvind Gronnesby for helpful suggestions and bug reports.
Copyright (c) 1997-2002 Greg Bacon.
This library is free software; you can distribute and/or modify it under
the same terms as Perl itself.