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From: tjporter@gronk.porter.net (Terry Porter)
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Subject: Re: alt.ascii-art posting statistics for the last 30 days
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 16:28:05 +1100
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On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 11:47:15 +0100, CeeJay in article
 <3c29aa49$0$62869$edfadb0f@dspool01.news.tele.dk> dashed off:
>> >and if so I have an idea.
>> >I have seen that the danish perl discussion group monitor the group for new
>> >posters and when a newbie posts in the group they are automaticly sent the
>FAQ .
>>
>> To their email address or the group ?
>
>To their email.
>
>> It could be done for sure, espially by Perl programmers! My programming skills
>> and available time dont allow me to write such an app however.
>
>They use it in that group so it's already written , I might get hold of a copy
>by asking around in that group.
>
>Interested ?

Sure, if I can automate it then thats np as I do read this group.

>
>> >And as already started by Timofei someone should calculate the ascii-art to
>text
>> >ratio.
>>
>> It would be on this group, but would take a few ideas and a capable programmer.
>
>There are a few in this group , but maybe we should ask around.

Why not ?
I'm working on a Python program to do news spoll stats, but it will take
a while  before its useful as I'm learning Python as I go.

Terry
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