Wade Ward wrote:
Q1) How does one go about herding messages from a server to a directory.
The word "server" is way too vague. There are many different types of server,
requiring very different solutions.
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.
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/
Q2) Is there a good perl suite for a hobbyist?
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