Re: Automatic NewsGroups

[salfter@salfter.diespammersdie.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <c3lsmr$15g$1@acme.gcfn.org>,
Dave Althoff Jr <dalloff@gcfn.org> wrote:
>Bryan Parkoff (bryan.nospam.parkoff@nospam.com) wrote:
>:     I am looking for a better software that it allows to download all posts'
>: header and body automatically every an hour to 24 hours everyday.  I don't
>: have to open the software to download all posts manually.  It would be
>: easier to view all posts during an offline.
>
>What I do know, though, is that whatever newsreader you use, you can
>probably write some kind of script for it which you can fire off
>automagically using some kind of an event scheduler...
>There has to be a way to do it.

Something like suck, perhaps?

http://home.comcast.net/~bobyetman/index.html

Back in the day, I used this to maintain a local copy of selected
newsgroups so I wouldn't have to run NNTP over a dial-up connection (slow as
hell).  I don't use it anymore because NNTP over broadband is fast enough,
but suck worked pretty well for my needs.

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