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1 | NEWSLIST\r |
| 2 | ======== \r |
| 3 | A program to assist HTTP browsing of newsgroups\r |
| 4 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\r |
| 5 | \r |
| 6 | WWW browsers such as NCSA Mosaic allow the user to read newsgroup\r |
| 7 | articles by specifying the group name in a URL eg 'news:comp.answers'.\r |
| 8 | \r |
| 9 | To browse through many groups, though, (and there are several thousand\r |
| 10 | of them) you really need a page or pages containing links to all the\r |
| 11 | groups. There are some good ones out there, for example,\r |
| 12 | \r |
| 13 | http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/News/Groups/Overview.html\r |
| 14 | \r |
| 15 | is the standard one at CERN, but it only shows the groups available there,\r |
| 16 | which may be rather different from those available on your machine.\r |
| 17 | \r |
| 18 | Newslist is a program which creates a hierarchy of pages for you based\r |
| 19 | on the groups available from YOUR server. It is written in python - a\r |
| 20 | splendid interpreted object-oriented language which I suggest you get\r |
| 21 | right now from the directory /pub/python at ftp.cwi.nl, if you haven't\r |
| 22 | already got it.\r |
| 23 | \r |
| 24 | You should be able to see some sample output by looking at:\r |
| 25 | http://pelican.cl.cam.ac.uk/newspage/root.html\r |
| 26 | \r |
| 27 | Descriptions of newsgroups can be added from a file with one group\r |
| 28 | per line. eg:\r |
| 29 | \r |
| 30 | alt.foo Articles about foo\r |
| 31 | comp.bar Programming in 'bar' and related languages\r |
| 32 | \r |
| 33 | A suitable list detailing most groups can be found at ftp.uu.net in\r |
| 34 | /uunet-info/newsgroups.gz.\r |
| 35 | \r |
| 36 | Make sure you read the information at the beginning of the program source and\r |
| 37 | configure the variables before running.\r |
| 38 | \r |
| 39 | In addition to python, you need:\r |
| 40 | \r |
| 41 | An NNTP-based news feed.\r |
| 42 | A directory in which to put the pages.\r |
| 43 | \r |
| 44 | The programming is not very beautiful, but it works! It comes with no\r |
| 45 | warranty, express or implied, but with the hope that some others may\r |
| 46 | find it useful.\r |
| 47 | \r |
| 48 | Comments, improvements & suggestions welcomed.\r |
| 49 | Quentin Stafford-Fraser\r |
| 50 | \r |
| 51 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------\r |
| 52 | Quentin Stafford-Fraser\r |
| 53 | http://pelican.cl.cam.ac.uk/people/qs101/me.html\r |
| 54 | \r |
| 55 | Cambridge University Computer Lab Rank Xerox Cambridge EuroPARC\r |
| 56 | qs101@cl.cam.ac.uk fraser@europarc.xerox.com\r |
| 57 | Tel: +44 223 334411 Tel: +44 223 341521\r |
| 58 | Fax: +44 223 334679 Fax: +44 223 341510\r |
| 59 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------\r |
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