Newsgroup Searching Program

From: Mike Flannigan (mikeflan_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 11/28/03 

Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 17:14:12 GMT

I know this is only marginally Perl related, but would
like some advice from the pros.

I'd like to get started doing some newsgroup searching.
Right now I use Netscape 4.72 for manually perusing
a few newsgroups. I'd like to do a broad search of
thousands of newsgroups on a daily basis. Just the
recent posts I guess.

I run ActiveState on Win2000. Don't really have a
server running yet.

One option I have found appears to be installing a
server and running Newspro:
http://www.elektrik-sheep.com/newspro/

I don't really need slick, but I do need a versatile
solution. If anybody would like to recommend a
starting point for a newby, please do. Otherwise
I will give Newspro a try.

I don't mind spending 100+ hours doing some
Perl programming to get this done, but I may
not quite be up to writing my own from scratch.
It's probably not as difficult as I think, but
I could use some examples.

Mike Flannigan