NewsLib - a News Library for Perl
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NewsLib is a library of perl modules for managing Network News services.
It's meant to be used for code-reuse and sharing when writing news-based
applications. It currently includes:
News::Article::Response Create responses to News::Article articles
News::Article::Ref Reference functions for news articles
News::Article::Clean Subroutines to clean News::Article headers
News::Article::Cancel Generate accurate cancel messages
News::NNTPAuth Deprecated for Net::NNTP::Auth
Net::NNTP::Auth A standard NNTP authentication method
Net::NNTP::Proxy A news server in perl
Net::NNTP::Client Simulate an entire NNTP client
Net::NNTP::Functions Code to implement NNTP-standard functions
Installation Instructions
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If you've got perl installed, it's easy:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
sudo make install
(If you don't have sudo installed, run the final command as root.)
If you don't have perl installed, then go install it and start over.
It'll do you good.
Existing Applications
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NewsProxy - a proxying news server
http://www.killfile.org/~tskirvin/software/newsproxy/
PGPMoose - a cancelbot for policing moderated newsgroups
http://www.killfile.org/~tskirvin/software/pgpmoose/