[leafnode-list] Re: feed leafnode from the command line

[Gary R. Schmidt]

On 12/07/2015 11:35 PM, Gary R. Schmidt wrote:
> On 12/07/2015 11:08 PM, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
> [SNIP]
>>
>> That said, if you can put in out.going a message that your news server
>> will accept, leafnode will probably post it for you.  The first part is
>> the hardest.
>>
> Just for the record - this works, dropping an RFC-compliant message in
> out.going and running fetchnews sends the message.
>
> But as Doug wrote, it's /writing/ the message correctly that is the hard
> part.
>
There's a Python program here <https://github.com/blippy/soul> that 
generates a message, it's a starting point, at least.

The program scans a newsfroup, puts collected links into a message and 
posts it.

	Cheers,
		Gary	B-)

P.S.  I forgot that the bloke who wrote it open-sourced it, it's been 
running on my server for yonks.