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This program is very dated; its coding style is archaic &
naive. Updating to version 1.0.0 was only done to make it run under
Fedora. I have no plans to radically fix the program behavior, because
it would be better to rewrite it altogether.

If you want improve it, do this:

* Make every grabbing & processing of a feed in its own thread. Start
  with n threads, break operations into feed_list_length/n batches.

* Write into a log what went wrong with each feed.

* Use a templating system for MIME emails. Before sending headers into a
  template, properly format them accordingly to MIME spec.

* Break program into several independent utils: grabbing, converting,
  nntp'ending.

  $ get_my_feed FeedName | feed_parse | \
    convert_to_mime FeedName | send_to_newsserver NewsGroup

  where FeedName is not a URI, but a feed name from a config
  file. FeedName in convert_to_mime required to read feed-specific
  rendering options from the config.

* Change user config to .ini style. For example:

  [ http://example.org/1.xml ]
  advice=text
  filter-1 = tags: cool, nice; !author: some dude; group: local.rss.foo
  filter-2 = tags: ruby; group: local.rss.bar
  # other goes to /dev/null

  [ http://example.org/2.xml ]
  filter-0 = group: local.rss.foo
  filter-1 = 

  [ http://example.org/3.xml ]
  filter-0 = group: local.rss.foo; !tags: news;

* Make each feed postable in several newsgroups simultaneously.


Release HOWTO
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$ make deploy