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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
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At our site we had a somewhat outdated active file so we got a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
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