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                YAM2Usenet v0.6a : 21-Nov-98
    ©1998 Ridwan Hughes <yam2usenet@ridhughz.demon.co.uk>
        http://www.ridhughz.demon.co.uk/yam2usenet/
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If you've been wanting to access usenet with YAM2 then these scripts are
for you, they allow you to download usenet posts into YAM2 and reply back
to them.


The basics of using the scripts is explained in the main documentation and
on the homepage, if you do not read the included doc then you might not get
as far as you would hope, the doc contains step by step information on how
to configure and set this up, then after that it's easy to read+post.


                        --=-- New in 0.6 --=--

->Added an authentication feature after someone requested the need for
  such a function. (this is experimental though)

->Amigaguide document thanks to Paul Compton for turning the .doc into
  .guide giving me a base to work on.

->Message ID history file so duplicate posts aren't downloaded when you
  set your datestamp back if needs be. Also when downloading posts it
  ignores duplicate posts, say you read 2 different newsgroups and
  someone crossposts to both newsgroups then only one copy is downloaded,
  but it only gets put into one of the newsgroups. It currently defaults
  to storing the last 500 ID's downloaded.

->Simple ascii progress bar for checking for duplicate articles and when
  downloading the posts.

->Further speed optimisation.

->Bugfixed the crossposting, it now works (sorry about that).

->A LOT of automation, no need for any manual filtering to be done as
  YAM2 preview6 has a fixed MAILFILTER arexx command (at last!), so all
  posts are parsed into YAM2's incoming folder and then filtered
  automatically.


                        --=-- Requirements --=--

YAM2 Preview 6 or better (preview 6 is out at http://www.yam.ch/preview)
AmiTCP or Miami or Miami Deluxe which creates the virtual TCP: device. NO,
TermiteTCP will never be supported as it does not have the TCP: device.
pipe: to be mounted
c:requestchoice
c:run
c:rename
c:version
RexxMast to be running
libs:rexxreqtools.library (this is installed with the YAM2Usenet installation)
Access to a newsserver, there's a big list of public servers in the doc.

                              ----=----


Happy posting and don't get yourself in trouble, Rid.


Darwin on IRCNet #amiga, http://adoom.ml.org webmaster

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[generic]                 6534   11664  56.0% -lh5- 40e4 Feb  2  1996 libs/rexxreqtools.library
[generic]                 8135   21882  37.2% -lh5- 609a Nov 21  1998 usenet.guide
[generic]                  297     854  34.8% -lh5- 9ce1 Dec  6  1996 usenet.guide.info
[generic]                 2960    9732  30.4% -lh5- 9af3 Nov 21  1998 usenet.install.rexx
[generic]                  249     471  52.9% -lh5- 6402 Jul  8  1998 usenet.install.rexx.info
[generic]                 1399    3718  37.6% -lh5- 4150 Nov 21  1998 usenet.post.rexx
[generic]                  250     471  53.1% -lh5- 7445 Jul  8  1998 usenet.post.rexx.info
[generic]                 2269    7541  30.1% -lh5- 663f Nov 21  1998 usenet.read.rexx
[generic]                  250     471  53.1% -lh5- 7445 Jul  8  1998 usenet.read.rexx.info
[generic]                 7629   19605  38.9% -lh5- 8a92 Nov 21  1998 usenet.txt
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