Hi! Richard,

On 19 Apr 09 19:31, you wrote to me:

 PQ>> I'm about to start a batch programming project to split NG digests

 RW> sOunds doable.  I've been playing with such an idea to
 RW> possibly automatically grab out ng posts to post in echomail or in my
 RW> local bases.

I used to rely on a German feller (I think) who ran a service at
www.news2mail.com, but the web server doesn't respond any more.  The link
'pings' okay, so he may get it running again.  His server used to dump
reams of Apache error logs over the last few months, since the ISP/news
distribution shake-up, so, I wasn't surprised when his service went
belly-up.  It was nice for a while getting one-for-one NG posts in email.

Now I'm using Google Groups but they only distribute digests in email.  :(

 RW> My problem right now is  nettamer which I'm using to
 RW> retrieve them, although there are ways. MOre a problem with email
 RW> because of all the mime formatting, fools with html and the like .

Yeah.  I've been lucky in the past as I've been picking moderated (usually
rules against mime-attaches or HTML) or source read-only newsgroups (NASA).

 PQ>> Has anyone tried this process yet?  Or, anything similar perhaps?

 RW>  I'm doing such a thing with some of the periodical
 RW> information i post in the ls_arrl echo, ham radio bulletins
 RW> and the like.  I use a splitting function to split those
 RW> emails into parts.  YOu could do the same with your digests.

I like the way you think.  ;-)

 RW> I'm using postit to post these to my squish bases as
 RW> echomail, but have used other autoposters.

I usually use the one that came with FastEcho, mostly for daily logfile
posts, but I do favour a doo-hickey called "Mpost" that has some
unique features.  I use it all the time for automated weekly nodelist FREQs
to the RC13 (Mike Luko in New Jersey) and for auto-reply posts to my NCs
when they submit their weekly nodelist segments.  :-)

 RW> I'll post an example of what I'm doing to post amateur radio newsline
 RW> weekly when received as an email.  IF this helps set you on the right
 RW> course let me know.

Cool.

 RW> I go through my email with my usual reader, find the current version
 RW> of Amateur Radio NEwsline (R) which came in.  I save it to a file
 RW> named newsline.txt which is then found by the batch when I exit my
 RW> mail reader.

Okay.  Mmm... I use a special email address and a Fido email handler called
"Transnet" (which has its own Fido address) to do that sort of
thing.  (It currently does the NG digests but as I've said that method is
limited by the JAM storage problem due to the length of the consoidated
posts.)  I don't see the posts till I browse my local echo.

 RW> From my mail reader batch:

Time to pull out some munchies...

 RW> :newsline

[ ...I understood about a fifth of that... ]

 RW> call postnews.bat

 RW> NOw we go into postnews where we find out how many pieces we have of
 RW> newsline.txt

[ ...trimmed... ]

 RW> FInland's work as well to do this.  LET's have a quick look see if
 RW> there are any other dependencies you'd need .

Ahh, yes.  I had a similar idea for mine; I had in mind to create an index
of "From:" line numbers, and then run from that.  Great minds...
and all that.  :)  Nah, I figure the only =exotic= software I'll need is
fgrep.  My current toolbox of (mostly Horst's) utils will do nicely,
besides.

 RW> HOpe that helps you out.

Sure did.  It means I'm on the right track.  Thanks for your insights.

Cheers,
Paul.

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