I'm adding that feature right now. It will work exactly as you suggest. It will only send an email once for every usenet batch pull. If you get 3 messages in the thread during a batch, only one mail will be sent to each user. Then if the next batch contains a message, it will send another email.

I'm trying to figure out how to use the existing vb template for email from within the perl script at the moment.

I'm also adding a feature to allow vb style quotes for usenet messages. It will mean you can choose italics or the <QUOTE> method. The choice will really depend on the newsgroup and whether the majority of posters use sensible news programs that apply quotations correctly.

regards