[net.news.b] dejunk - a program to automatically handle junked news

jf@sal.UUCP (Johan Finnved) (01/25/85)

At our site we had a somewhat outdated active file so we got a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