Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site sal.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!mcvax!enea!sal!jf From: jf@sal.UUCP (Johan Finnved) Newsgroups: net.news.b Subject: dejunk - a program to automatically handle junked news Message-ID: <136@sal.UUCP> Date: Thu, 24-Jan-85 23:41:42 EST Article-I.D.: sal.136 Posted: Thu Jan 24 23:41:42 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jan-85 03:22:30 EST Reply-To: jf@sal.UUCP (Johan Finnved) Organization: Objecta, Taby, Sweden Lines: 25 At our site we had a somewhat outdated active file so we got a lot of articles in newsgroup junk. I wrote a program to move articles from junk to their proper newsgroups as if though the newsgroups were there when the articles were received. Ambition level: - If the articles were received to *some* newsgroups duplicates are avoided. - If newsgroups are missing a question is asked *once* for each missing newsgroup if you want to create it. If the answer is 'no' you don't get repeated questions even if there is a lot of articles for the unwanted newsgroup. - Xref: header lines are fixed to reflect the new situation. - If there is no problem the articles are unlinked from the junk directory. Somebody recognizes the problem ? Perhaps someone has already made such a program ? My program (as entered from scratch today so there may be some bugs left) is posted to net.sources Johan Finnved jf@sal.UUCP ...!decvax!mcvax!enea!sal!jf