NAME
WebFetch::EGAuthors - download a list of top mail-list authors from eGroups
SYNOPSIS
In perl scripts:
use WebFetch::EGAuthors;
From the command line:
perl -w -MWebFetch::EGAuthors -e "&fetch_main" -- --dir directory --list list-name [--aliases alias-file]
DESCRIPTION
This module gets a list of top mail-list authors from eGroups.
After this runs, the file eg-authors.html will be created or replaced. If there already was an eg-authors.html file, it will be moved to Oeg-authors.html.
The --list parameter names ther eGroups list that you want a top-authors list for.
The optional --aliases parameter names a local file with aliases for names found on the list. The reason for this aliasing capability is because sometimes users use nicknames, a plain e-mail address or different versions of their name from different accounts, or may change them over time. Since a site posting one of these top-authors lists for its own users usually knows who the people are, this allows the maintainer to put different totals for the same person into one sum. The format of the aliases file is as follows:
alias-name == real-name
Comment lines may begin with a hash "#" and will be ignored.
AUTHOR
WebFetch was written by Ian Kluft for the Silicon Valley Linux User Group (SVLUG). Send patches, bug reports, suggestions and questions to webfetch-maint@svlug.org.