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Description
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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.
IMPORTANT!!! IMPORTANT!!! IMPORTANT!!! IMPORTANT!!! IMPORTANT!!!
IMPORTANT!!! IMPORTANT!!! IMPORTANT!!! IMPORTANT!!! IMPORTANT!!!
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.
Prerequisites
-------------
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-#.##
Installation
------------
Install NewsScan by running the following commands:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make install
Examples
--------
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.
Bugs, Problems, Suggestions
---------------------------
Please send any suggestions, bug reports, complaints, et cetera to
Greg Bacon <gbacon@hiwaay.net>.
Acknowledgements
----------------
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
---------
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.
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