Description
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This is the Perl 5 News-Scan distribution.  It requires perl version 5.004
or later.

This distribution provides a mechanism for collecting articles from a
set of Usenet newsgroups and then creating statistical reports about
those groups.

IMPORTANT!!!  IMPORTANT!!!  IMPORTANT!!!  IMPORTANT!!!  IMPORTANT!!!
IMPORTANT!!!  IMPORTANT!!!  IMPORTANT!!!  IMPORTANT!!!  IMPORTANT!!!

This release of News-Scan is incompatible with prior releases.  This
should be considered alpha-quality software, so the internal
implementation is subject to change without notice, although I will
only make incompatible changes only when absolutely necessary.

Prerequisites
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To use NewsScan, you need to have installed the following packages:

   TimeDate-#.##
   MailTools#.##
   IO-#.##

If you want to collect articles from an NNTP server, you'll also need
to install

   libnet-#.##

Installation
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Install NewsScan by running the following commands:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make install

Examples
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Please see the eg/ directory after you have unpacked the distribution
for examples of using this library to gather and report statistics for
Usenet newsgroups.

Bugs, Problems, Suggestions
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Please send any suggestions, bug reports, complaints, et cetera to
Greg Bacon <[email protected]>.

Acknowledgements
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This software is based on Mike Lee's <[email protected]> posters
distribution and also on software posted to comp.lang.perl.misc
by Christian Murphy <[email protected]>.

Many, many thanks are also in order to Gary Niemcewicz <[email protected]>
for all his helpful thoughts, comments, and bug reports.

Chaim Frenkel <[email protected]> has also contributed immensely with his
extremely helpful comments, suggestions, and questions.

Thanks to Henrik Gemal, Gerrit P. Haase, and Oyvind Gronnesby for
helpful suggestions and bug reports.

Copyright
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Copyright (c) 1997-2002 Greg Bacon.
This library is free software; you can distribute and/or modify it under
the same terms as Perl itself.

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