Questions tagged [newsgroup]
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inserting textual data into SQLite using Python yields a TypeError when string formatting... of strings. Why?
I'm trying to trawl newsgroup to test some text-based grouping algorithms, fetching batches of newsgroup headers and sticking them into a SQLite database. The database is about as plain as it gets, with text columns for all the data, and the header…
Mike 'Pomax' Kamermans
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Now that Microsoft has shutdown newsgroups
...where does one go for help on boutique topics like TAPI, for instance?
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R: tm package reading in Newsgroups data
The lines of code below return the following error:
">"object 'readNewsgroup' not…
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Does an open source project need a news group?
I open-sourced a tool I created to scratch an itch. From the downloads for the installer on the project page I can see I'm not the only one interested. About 5 people seem to have upgraded from the previous version. But I know next to nothing about…
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How the number of connections of a usenet provider change something?
At work, we are speaking about the interest to have 10 or 30 connections simultanly to a usenet provider.
Some guys said it change nothing because the 10 or 30 threads will take all the bandwidth available, so the download time will be the…
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Noob query about relating newsgroup reference id to http location
I know this is not much programming related, but I would appreciate if someone could tell me on how to (if possible) a newsgroup reference id to a webpage.
Say, If the reference id of the newsgroup message is…
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how to get Outlook Express to continue after failing to read a newsgroup message
I use outlook express as a newsreader. Sometimes I want to get the entire server holdings of a particular newsgroup. Trouble is, OE seems to snag when it was able to read a message headr but for some reason it can't retrieve the body. It snags…
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What is the meaning/word of each feature in 20 newsgroups dataset?
I want to use the 20 newsgroups dataset to test an algorithm, and analysis the significant words for each group.
In the website provided by University of Toronto. But I can't find the correspond vocabulary file for this dataset. So is there anyone…
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How do i create a newsgroup indexer and downloader?
Been searching on google and might be that im searching for the wronge things.
How can i index a newsgroup server ?
If i already have a list of nzb files, how hard is it to write a little command line tool that downloads them?
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Parsing / Decoding an NNTP Newsgroup article with corresponding content-type
I am still on trying to create my android newsreader for my university's newsgroup server and once again I am stuck. I am currently using the Apache NNTPClient Library for all of my network calls.
I manage to receive the messages and everything is…
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Why can't I connect to an NNTP server?
I'm trying to use PHP's imap_open function to connect to an NNTP server but have so far been entirely unsuccessful. (PHP documentation states that this is possible, despite IMAP access being the primary purpose of the function.) After trying…
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Is newsgroup comp.lang.c++.moderated dead?
According to what Google shows one the newsgroup comp.lang.c++.moderated the last post is almost a year old now (it is from 23th May 2016).
I wrote a post myself almost a week ago and it wasn't published so far.
At the same time newsgroup…
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