Re: cron or perl automation of posting FAQs

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Pamela Greene (pgreene@optics.rochester.edu)
Wed, 14 Dec 1994 16:04:22 -0500 (EST)

Michelle Murrain asked:
> Any tips on automating posting? I already know how to send automated
> mail messages using cron (I maintain three lists too). But I've
> never tried to do anything that way via news.

I use, and recommend, Jonathan Kamens' post_faq perl script, with a
cron process to run it at appropriate times. It's powerful, well
documented, and pretty easy to set up. There's also Ian Kluft's
auto-faq, which is even more automated, but I haven't tried it.

Both packages are available by email or FTP from the rtfm server as
/pub/post_faq/post_faq.shar and /pub/faq/auto-faq32.part[1-3].gz. For
more information, see the submission guidelines for news.answers.

- Pam Greene

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