Importing text files into a vB3 message board?

[fustanella]

This has got to be easy and called for many a time, but I can't for the life of me find the right tool.

I use private sections of my vB3 board for work, and one of my tasks soon will be to post simple, short text files to one of those sections as they come in. Needless to say, I don't want to manually copy and paste, on the hour every hour.

How can I automate this? The files end in *.txt and are the only things in the "source" folder, which my vB3 box can reach. When it posts 'em, it should delete 'em. The subject line can be derived from the filename, or I can set the files up to have the desired subject line as the first line of the text file.

I've searched the boards here pretty extensively, I think. I did find a nntp gateway that sounds like a lark, but I have to focus first on the task at hand.

As always, thanks for your inestimable help.