ltf@ncmicro.lonestar.org (Lance Franklin) (11/14/90)
Has anybody ever done any work on getting bnews to notify a user on the local system when somebody posts a followup to their post? What I have in mind is utilizing the xref capabilities of bnews to recognize when a newly-arrived article has a reference to a local posting, and mailing to the user that made the post the newsgroup and article-number of the followup. Alternatively, a log of articles which make reference to local postings would also be useful. Anybody ever done it? Lance -- Lance T. Franklin +----------------------------------------------+ (ltf@ncmicro.lonestar.org) | "You want I should bop you with this here | NC Microproducts, Inc. | Lollipop?!?" The Fat Fury | Richardson, Texas +----------------------------------------------+
andrew@calvin.doc.ca (Andrew Patrick) (11/16/90)
In article <224@ncmicro.lonestar.org> ltf@ncmicro.lonestar.org (Lance Franklin) writes: >Has anybody ever done any work on getting bnews to notify a user on the >local system when somebody posts a followup to their post? What I have >in mind is utilizing the xref capabilities of bnews to recognize when >a newly-arrived article has a reference to a local posting, and mailing >to the user that made the post the newsgroup and article-number of the >followup. Alternatively, a log of articles which make reference to >local postings would also be useful. How about beginning with a simple script that uses find and grep to search the news spool directories for files newer than a key file, containing strings like *@site.domain I use a csh script that contains as its heart: find . -type f -newer $timefile -exec egrep "$pattern" {} \; \ -print -exec echo " " \; >>& $outfile where "pattern" has been defined by: set pattern=".*@.*\.doc\.ca" I run this script once a day from cron and mail the results to active news readers (it takes about 1 hour running on a Sun Sparcstation 1+). It shows any references to postings from any of the sites within my domain. It's not pretty, but it does the job. I would love to see what other people have developed to do this. -- Andrew Patrick, Ph.D. Department of Communications, Ottawa, CANADA andrew@calvin.doc.CA andrew@doccrc.BITNET HDTV: higher resolution, improved colour, wider screen, "sit-com" reruns. What's wrong with this picture?