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From: billy@MIX.COM
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Subject: Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 04:28:06 +0000 (UTC)
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nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:

> if you have the message id you can easily get the message, and for
> binaries this could be quite powerful.

Like I said, a simple perl script can do this, and more (fetch
via the article filename, as it appears in the Xref header).

> 56 lines of perl is not a piece of cake

To you, unboubtly.  To anyone with two brian cells to rub
together, it is.

Billy Y..
-- 
        sub     #'9+1   ,r0             ; convert ascii byte
	add     #9.+1   ,r0             ; to an integer
	bcc     20$                     ; not a number