touch_newsgroup
===============

Copyright (c) 1999 Jim Nicholson <j.nicholson@computer.org>

INSTALLATION
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touch_newsgroup uses the Net::NNTP module from libnet which can be obtained
from your nearest CPAN mirror.

put touch_newsgroup somewhere (e.g. /usr/local/bin)
put touch_newsgroup.1 somewhere on the MANPATH (e.g. /usr/local/man/man1)

Edit /etc/crontab to run touch_newsgroup every night.

OPTIONS
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-v
	be verbose, say which article was read from each newsgroup

-f groupfile
	read list of newsgroups from file 'groupfile'

-h hostname
	name of host running leafnode (default is 127.0.0.1)

groupnames
	list of newsgroups

WHAT IT DOES
------------
The script reads the last article from each of the specified newsgroups
using NNTP.

WHY NOT TOUCH THE FILES DIRECTLY ?
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1)	If leafnode changes how it works in the future, the script would
	need changing.  This way it doesn't

2)	Avoids race-conditions with leafnode changing file times.

3)	I wanted to have a play with Net::NNTP :-)

BUGS
----
It should handle errors more gracefully, at present it just dies with an
appropriate error message.

