Re: [photo-3d] archives

[Peter Davis <pd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:25 PM 9/28/2000, you wrote:
> >
> >         http://www.egroups.com/message/photo-3d/<msg#>
> >
> >You could write a Perl script, for example, so retrieve all the messages
> >from 1 to whatever.  If you're handy with Perl, you could also have it
> >strip off the extra junk that eGroups puts on the display, so you get only
> >the message text itself.
> >
> >Of course, you were probably looking for something easier than writing a
> >Perl script.  Hmmm.  I wonder if anyone has a ready-made script to fetch
> >the archives of any given egroups list.
> >
>
>Peter - the perl script idea is interesting - PERL is my favorite
>programming language. Although I've never programmed it to interface
>via TCP/IP to anything external (although I understand it's not
>particularly difficult to do so).

If you check CPAN, there are libraries of routines for doing Web 
stuff.  You could probably find enough code so that all you have to do is 
write a loop to provide the URL and process the HTML that is returned by 
the egroups server.

-pd


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