NEWSLIST                             ========                A program to assist HTTP browsing of newsgroups            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WWW browsers such as NCSA Mosaic allow the user to read newsgrouparticles by specifying the group name in a URL eg 'news:comp.answers'. To browse through many groups, though, (and there are several thousandof them) you really need a page or pages containing links to all thegroups. There are some good ones out there, for example,     http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/News/Groups/Overview.html is the standard one at CERN, but it only shows the groups available there,which may be rather different from those available on your machine. Newslist is a program which creates a hierarchy of pages for you basedon the groups available from YOUR server. It is written in python - asplendid interpreted object-oriented language which I suggest you getright now from the directory /pub/python at ftp.cwi.nl, if you haven'talready got it. You should be able to see some sample output by looking at:   http://pelican.cl.cam.ac.uk/newspage/root.html Descriptions of newsgroups can be added from a file with one groupper line. eg: 	alt.foo   Articles about foo	comp.bar  Programming in 'bar' and related languages A suitable list detailing most groups can be found at ftp.uu.net in/uunet-info/newsgroups.gz. Make sure you read the information at the beginning of the program source andconfigure the variables before running. In addition to python, you need: 	An NNTP-based news feed.	A directory in which to put the pages. The programming is not very beautiful, but it works!  It comes with nowarranty, express or implied, but with the hope that some others mayfind it useful. Comments, improvements & suggestions welcomed.Quentin Stafford-Fraser  ----------------------------------------------------------------------                       Quentin Stafford-Fraser            http://pelican.cl.cam.ac.uk/people/qs101/me.html  Cambridge University Computer Lab        Rank Xerox Cambridge EuroPARC qs101@cl.cam.ac.uk                           fraser@europarc.xerox.com Tel: +44 223 334411                                Tel: +44 223 341521 Fax: +44 223 334679                                Fax: +44 223 341510 ----------------------------------------------------------------------