Re: How to test the accessibility to a newsgroup ?

Gisle Aas (aas@bergen.sn.no)
Tue, 25 Jun 1996 16:24:07 +0200


In message <199606250957.LAA00681@epiphore.francenet.fr>, Gildas Perrot writes:
> I created a perl script which tests the accessibility of an URL with head(). 
> However, it doens't work on an URL like "news:comp.sys.sgi.misc". I probably 
> have to specify an article id. Is there a way to test the accessibility (read
 
> and write) of a newsgroup with LWP ?

Not yet.

--Gisle