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[Russ Allbery]

Anne Wilson <anne at unidata.ucar.edu> writes:

> So, sending IHAVE would work?  This is a possibility but would require
> some development.  My scripting code is in Python - anything comparable
> there?

Yup, IHAVE will work fine.

In Python, you want the nntplib library, and it has an ihave method that
should do what you want.  Don't forget to generate Date and Message-ID
headers and put something in Path (just Path: not-for-mail is fine).

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>