🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1994Jan11.184435.23684@orbital.demon.co.uk>, 
	steveh@orbital.demon.co.uk (Stephen Hebditch) writes:

|> Facilities for doing this are also provided in slurp

The only problem I had with SLURP was that it requires you to have
CNEWS or another local news processing package installed locally.
Since the site that I developed this software for doesn't run any
local news software, but instead all locally-read news is done via
NNTP newsreaders, SLURP didn't appear feasible, so instead I
wrote the NNTP_POLL hack, which is similar to a newsreader
working in "batch" mode to "read" new articles to a series of
files, then batch those files for xfer via UUCP, or whatever
else you hack the polling script to do.

I'm using this hack to feed a half-dozen sites, so it serves
the purpose.


MD
-- 
-- Michael P. Deignan
-- Population Studies & Training Center 
-- Brown University, Box 1916, Providence, RI  02912 
-- (401) 863-7284