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Originally posted by fastforward

The reason I did it this way was that most people don't have either a full newsfeed or their own news server. Most of us are using a personal news account such as Supernews. There are issues of missing posts and problems with different character sets that could probably be handled more easily if the news server was dumping things raw into a database for us to process later so I would be very interested in your script if you'd like to share it

http://www.stupendous.net/news2mysql-0.1.tar.gz

I hope you find it useful.

I notice that you don't use News::Article for parsing of the articles? You'd probably find you would have better luck using that to handle all the character set issues and to avoid using home-grown regex's. I'm sure it uses regex's internally (not bothered to look) but why reinvent the wheel, eh?

How do Supernews feel about you polling their servers every 30 minutes?