Description ----------- 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 ------------- 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 ------------ Install NewsScan by running the following commands: perl Makefile.PL make make install Examples -------- 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 --------------------------- Please send any suggestions, bug reports, complaints, et cetera to Greg Bacon <gbacon@hiwaay.net>. Acknowledgements ---------------- This software is based on Mike Lee's <mikey@ontek.com> posters distribution and also on software posted to comp.lang.perl.misc by Christian Murphy <cpm@muc.de>. Many, many thanks are also in order to Gary Niemcewicz <gniemcew@dti.net> for all his helpful thoughts, comments, and bug reports. Chaim Frenkel <chaimf@cris.com> 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 --------- 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.