Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu!icarus!kaul From: kaul@icarus.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rich Kaul) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: This looks like a job for Perl Man (NNTP) Message-ID: Date: 27 Sep 90 12:57:32 GMT References: <20550@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> Sender: news@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu Organization: Ohio State University Electrical Engineering Lines: 16 Nntp-Posting-Host: icarus In-reply-to: pvo@sapphire.OCE.ORST.EDU's message of 27 Sep 90 01:41:14 GMT Originator: kaul@icarus.eng.ohio-state.edu In article <20550@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> pvo@sapphire.OCE.ORST.EDU (Paul O'Neill) writes: 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. [ ... ] Looks like a bear, but probably manageable in perl. True, perl could probably handle it and no doubt it would do a good job. A better solution would be to pick a more intelligent news reader. GNUS, for example, will let you read from many servers and all it requires is GNU emacs ;-). -- Rich Kaul | It wouldn't be research if we kaul@icarus.eng.ohio-state.edu | knew what we were doing.