NewsLib - a News Library for Perl ================================= NewsLib is a library of perl modules for managing Network News services. It's meant to be used for code-reuse and sharing when writing news-based applications. It currently includes: News::Article::Response Create responses to News::Article articles News::Article::Ref Reference functions for news articles News::Article::Clean Subroutines to clean News::Article headers News::Article::Cancel Generate accurate cancel messages News::NNTPAuth Deprecated for Net::NNTP::Auth Net::NNTP::Auth A standard NNTP authentication method Net::NNTP::Proxy A news server in perl Net::NNTP::Client Simulate an entire NNTP client Net::NNTP::Functions Code to implement NNTP-standard functions Installation Instructions ========================= If you've got perl installed, it's easy: perl Makefile.PL make make test sudo make install (If you don't have sudo installed, run the final command as root.) If you don't have perl installed, then go install it and start over. It'll do you good. Existing Applications ===================== NewsProxy - a proxying news server http://www.killfile.org/~tskirvin/software/newsproxy/ PGPMoose - a cancelbot for policing moderated newsgroups http://www.killfile.org/~tskirvin/software/pgpmoose/