herding messages from a server to a directory

First-time poster here in perl-land:

I had a close working relationship with a fellow at the University of
Minnesota named Kevin. He ran the whole show with perl. I am trying to do
something for which I believe perl is the language of choice and wonder out
loud if this might be a good opportunity to work up a little something in
perl.

Q1) How does one go about herding messages from a server to a directory.
These messages would be of the variety that appear in usenet, with the same
subject heading, except the first, which lacks 'Re: ' Ultimately, they
would be in a directory where they would exists as filenames with some
ordering.

Q2) Is there a good perl suite for a hobbyist?
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WW

re: herding messages from a server to a directory

Wade Ward wrote:
The word "server" is way too vague. There are many different types of server,
requiring very different solutions.
A very useful Perl program is AUB. It
a) pulls messages from a USENET news server (via NNTP),
b) associates several messages together based on the subject line.

http://yukidoke.org/~mako/projects/aub/
It's already included if you're running Linux, Solaris and many other Unix-like OS.
For Windows, both ActiveState.com and Cygwin.com flavors of Perl are free for download.

-Joe

re: herding messages from a server to a directory

"Joe Smith" <joe@inwap.comwrote in message
news:ZPGdndtfBdyiTK_bnZ2dnUVZ_oKnnZ2d@comcast.com. ..Thanks Joe. I'll see what I can hunt down at that link tomorrow. I've
failed with cygwin twice: I can't unlearn dos. I'll give ActiveState a
peek.
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WW