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