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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Perl as a nntp reader
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.214017.12109@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 15 Mar 91 21:40:17 GMT
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In-Reply-To: turner@smart.sps.mot.com (Robert Turner)

In article <921@nddsun1.sps.mot.com>, turner@smart (Robert Turner) writes:
| Has anybody used perl as a nntp reader (client).  It's just a thought
| that since perl has all the socket stuff and all of the data handling
| capability it might be useful when trying to debug a server.

Well, this has certainly come full circle.

All that socket stuff is in there *because* Larry Wall wanted to
rewrite rn in Perl.

He got sidetracked while writing the "Programming Perl" Nutshell
Handbook, but it is once again in his queue to complete.

I have a Perl script that connects every half-hour to half-a-dozen
NNTP servers and perform transfers, ala nntpxfer.

Just another NNTP and Perl hacker,
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