Hi,
in some newsgroups, FAQs & Co. are posted regularly with
subjects like "<2026-01-01> FAQ for newsgroup foo.bar" and
pseudo-headers like "Archive-name: foo-bar/faq". My current
workflow is as follows:
- Read the document.
- Add a score file entry for that newsgroup that matches on
the subject being "<2026-01-01> FAQ for newsgroup foo.bar"
and marking those articles as read.
- When a new article with the subject "<2026-02-01> FAQ for
newsgroup foo.bar" arrives:
- Find and browse the document's Git repository.
- Look in the score file for the last related entry
("<2026-01-01> […]").
- In the Git repository, read the diff between versions
2026-01-01 and 2026-02-01.
- Add/update a score file entry that matches on the sub-
ject being "<2026-02-01> […]".
I would like to automate this as follows:
- When an article is selected that has an "Archive-name"
pseudo-header:
- If the file named by the "Archive-name" pseudo-header
has not been saved before:
- If I answer affirmatively to a suitable question:
- Save the article's body in some subdirectory with
the file name taken from the "Archive-name" pseudo
header (either with some security checks or with me
confirming the file name as safe as part of that
question).
- Add a score file entry that matches on that
article's subject.
- Otherwise:
- Show the diff between the saved article's body and
the selected article's body.
- If I confirm that I have read the diff:
- Save the selected article's body by overwriting
the saved file.
- Add a score file entry that matches on the
selected article's subject.
Has someone worked on this topic before?
TIA,
Tim
