> I'd use NNTP to access the news source. Python includes a pretty > complete NNTP library (nttplib.py) as part of the standard library.
Yes, I definitely will. The spool just happened to be handy as I was writing the first version. What I'm really interested in is what on non-Unix systems uses newsrc-like files to define what has been read. If nothing, then I shan't worry too much about them. MJR
