discuss: HOWTO on setting up a NewsGroup Server
Subject:
Re: HOWTO on setting up a NewsGroup Server
From:
Alexander Bartolich ####@####.####
Date:
6 Aug 2002 10:51:13 -0000
Message-Id: <3066.1028631044@www56.gmx.net>
Shuvam wrote:
> [...] A lot of servers have huge searchable Usenet article
> databases with Web front-ends, but they appear to
> guard the innards from direct downloads.
> In other words, you can browse the database all you
> want using searches, but can't get a full ASCII download
> of the article files.
This 'protection' is trivial to circumvent.
I did so for one of my pet projects
http://fortune-mod-fvl.sourceforge.net/
The trick is to spoof the user agent:
wget --user-agent="Links (0.96; Unix)" ...
I did not implement access to the search engine, though.
The very idea of that project is to manually find interesting
quotes. But if you have a practical idea (not just 'make a
backup of google') I'll be glad to help.
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