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From: wmp@vaxine.UUCP (Wayne Power)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Looking for a netnews archiver program
Message-ID: <705@vaxine.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Nov-87 14:03:56 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 30 14:03:56 1987
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Reply-To: wmp@vaxine.cs.ulowell.edu (Wayne Power)
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In article <61@icus.UUCP> lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) writes:
>In article <303@caus-dp.UUCP> marcos@caus-dp.UUCP (Marcos R. Della) writes:
>>I am looking for any program out there that will selectivly archive and
>>compress news articles that come over the net, taking the sections to
>
Lenny responds:
>Probably the easiest way to do this is to create a entry in your "sys"
>file for news unbatching:
>
>archive:<newsgroup1>,<newsgroup2>,<newsgroupN>::cat >> /usr/spool/news/Archived

Expire will also archive selected newsgroups in a parallel tree.  Methinks the
key phrase here is "selectivly archive news articles".  The signal to noise
ratio in the best of newsgroups leaves something to be desired.  Both Lenny's
approach and expire -a will archive entire newsgroups, not selected articles.
Additionally, you don't have much of a handle on your archives with either
approach.  You'll have some trudging to do if you want to find a selected
posting.

I've considered writing a program that would eat news articles and put them
into a news archive, leaving some header information in a data base so users
could peruse the archives and select articles for extraction.  Given my work
load, I wouldn't hold my breath.

To echo Marcos' query, has anybody out there got one?

--wmp