[comp.lang.perl] interactive newsgroup filter?

dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) (05/31/90)

Does anybody have a program that will let me scan through saved news
articles and save or discard them according to the following
algorithm?

Look at each file specified in ARGV.

Show me a screenful of it, more on request, suppressing headers I don't
want to see.  Then, depending on my wishes, either (a) rename it to
something or (b) let it stay as it is or (c) move it into a .deleted
subdirectory.  When deciding what to rename it to, use a good default
name (based on an Archive-name: header if found, else the Subject:
line), and let me either accept the default or enter a new filename.
If renaming it would conflict with an existing file, handle that
gracefully, probably by adding a unique suffix to the intended name.

Most important of all, the program should not have been thoroughly
tested!

Rahul Dhesi <dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com>
UUCP:  oliveb!cirrusl!dhesi