perl-News-Search

Usenet news searching toolkit

News::Search searches Usenet news postings. It can be used to search local news groups that google doesn't cover. Or, even for news groups that are covered by google, it can give you all the hits in one file, in the format that you prescribed. You can also use the provided the news-search manpage in cron to watch specific news groups for specific criteria and mail you reports according to the interval you set.