[Off Topic?] - Threading in usenet messages?

[Nathan Poole]

Hi All,

Apologies if this is off-topic.

Has anybody done threading whilst talking to a news server via perl? I'm 
looking at the Net:NNTPClient perl module, and it appears to have an 
'xthread' method, but can't seem to make it happen... Is this the right way 
to do it, or do I have to write code manually to look at the referrences in 
the header etc recursively?

I was sure 180000 people would have done this before, but can't find much 
code.... Closest I got was an INN-specific one that reads the dir structure 
from freshmeat.. I'd rather do it all so I could interrogate a remote NNTP 
Server... I don't want to rewrite a news client, but just the thread 
structure would be handy.

Many, many thanks if someone could point me back on course :)

Cheers,

Nathan