News Posting Script with Emailing Ability

[Jonathan M. Rose]

William Park wrote:
> In <comp.lang.python> Jonathan M. Rose <jonrose at farious.com> wrote:
> 
>>I am looking for a script that I can sit on an HTML server (Linux, 
>>Apache, PHP/Perl/Python/Etc.) that will allow me to do the following things:
>>
>>1) Post news articles that consists of (i) a title and (ii) a body.
> 
> 
> Any newsreader that allows you to "postpone" posting should work here.
> Just create the file (using Python, for example), and let it handle
> posting.  I use Tin.  But, for posting, you can post using Telnet or
> script equivalent.
> 
> 
>>2) Show the last X posts (or, better yet, just the last X titles) on a 
>>home page.
> 
> 
> Write a script.
> 
> 
>>3) Show all posts on a "news" page.
> 
> 
> Another script.
> 
> 
>>4) When a news article is posted, email the news article (with the title 
>>being the email subject and the news body being the email body) to a 
>>single address (which will be a Mailman email list address).
> 
> 
> Use
>     To: ...
> in your posting, or mail the "file" directly which should same step as
> posting.
> 
> 
>>5) Preferably not require the use of a db server.
>>6) Preferably allow changing or deleting news posts if errors were made 
>>in the wording or otherwise.
> 
> 
> This is dependent on news server on individual site.  Some servers
> honour delete and some don't (ie. Google).
> 
> 
>>7) I do not need nor want the ability for users to "reply" to the news 
>>articles.
> 
> 
> If you post something, then it's in the public domain.  You can't
> control whether others reply or follow up.  If you don't any followup,
> then don't post.
> 
> 
>>Does anyone know of anything like this?  If not, how about simple news 
>>posting tools that I could remake to include the emailing functionality?
> 
> 
> Simple script would do.
> 
> 
>>A tool similar to what I want is located at 
>>http://newswriter2005.sourceforge.net/.  This one, however, doesn't 
>>allow email of news articles.
>>
>>Also - what is the proper newsgroup for asking about server-side html 
>>scripts?  alt.html.server-side would be perfect, but it seems to be dead 
>>(at least on the news server I use).
>>
>>Thank you for your time in advance.
>>
>>-Jon
> 
> 

Woops, didn't mean to mislead people.  Not posting to a newsgroup, but 
posting to a web page, blog-like.

-Jon
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