discuss: HOWTO on setting up a NewsGroup Server
Subject:
Re: HOWTO on setting up a NewsGroup Server
From:
Alexander Bartolich ####@####.####
Date:
6 Aug 2002 11:49:29 -0000
Message-Id: <25196.1028634546@www56.gmx.net>
Shuvam wrote:
> [...] where you can fetch articles in (almost) plain
> ASCII form one by
one.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20020723182928.03920.00000288%40mb-ck.aol.com&output=gplain
If you know the message ID you can get the raw text.
> [...] I presume this makes the site dish out simply
> formatted data instead of multi-frame tabular stuff?
No. You get the same stuff you would see with a GUI browser.
It's only that Google disallows access to the default user agent
of wget (and perhaps a lot of other robots).
> [...] download "the last 1000 articles in x.y.z" one
> at a time?
Right now it reads a list of message IDs from a file.
Your problem could be solved by a separate pass
invoking Google's advanced newsgroup search.
But perhaps there is cleaner output format than
all that HTML.
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