import script from several formats

From	Retro Guy <retro_guy@novabbs.com>
Newsgroups	rocksolid.programming
Subject	import script from several formats
Date	2021-02-07 03:01 -0700
Organization	novaBBS
Message-ID	<20210207030130.3d1aec8d@desktop14.dt> (permalink)

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I'm working on an import script for news archives into rslight.

The main reason was to easily copy a newsgroup from one rslight site to
another without just copying the entire spool, just copy the group .db3
file. Then I realized I have old .mbox files of some newsgroups dating
back to around 1998 and thought it would be fun to import these messages
also.

I can easily pull the articles from .mbox, and I'll use the code from
spoolnews.php to plug them into rslight. The idea is I can just drop
a .mbox or rslight.db3 file into a directory and it will be
automatically imported. 

It shouldn't be difficult to get this done, so hopefully I can spend
some time next week and finish it up. I've been reading through some of
the old articles and it's interesting. I also need to make sure the
date format will work, or I'll convert the dates during import. Some
old news has dates like

Date: 1998/08/10

Just need to make sure these dates are read properly.

Retro Guy

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import script from several formats Retro Guy <retro_guy@novabbs.com> - 2021-02-07 03:01 -0700
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