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From: pvo@sapphire.OCE.ORST.EDU (Paul O'Neill)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: This looks like a job for Perl Man (NNTP)
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Date: 27 Sep 90 01:41:14 GMT
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Reply-To: pvo@sapphire.OCE.ORST.EDU (Paul O'Neill)
Organization: Coastal Imaging Lab, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
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Have you ever switched your NNTP client over to a new server?

You quickly discover that your .newsrc file is useless because the article
numbers on the new server are different than the article #'s on your
old server.  

What's needed is a tool to map old article numbers to new article numbers.
Something like:
		remap_news oldserver newserver

remap_news would read a user's .newsrc file, connect to oldserver and convert
read articles to message #'s, connect to newserver and convert those
message #'s to article numbers and then construct a new .newsrc file.

Looks like a bear, but probably manageable in perl.

Uh, I don't suppose anyone's already done this?  Heh, heh.

Paul O'Neill                 pvo@oce.orst.edu		DoD 000006
Coastal Imaging Lab
OSU--Oceanography
Corvallis, OR  97331         503-737-3251