Downloader and analyzer for [login to view URL] I need a tool that helps me monitor usenet posts to help me analyze fake usenet identities. What I would like to do is to: Do a search on [login to view URL] (e.g. by group, by author, by date etc) with different options (sort by, etc.) [login to view URL] Copy its resulting URL into your program, and tell to the program "get me (at most) N pages of these results" The program should start form that page and follow to next pages (adding &start=__&sa=N) [login to view URL] The the program should then examine all the links to messages in those pages [login to view URL] Convert each link to "original format" structure [login to view URL] And get all these messages, extracting all the useful information/headers from those messages, like: From: Newsgroups: X-Newsreader: Message-ID: Date: NNTP-Posting-Host: (Any other suggestion on useful information?) The information should be written to a text file in tab-delimited form, so that it's easy for me to analyze them.
## Deliverables
1) Complete and fully-functional working program(s) in executable form as well as complete source code of all work done.
2) Installation package that will install the software (in ready-to-run condition) on the platform(s) specified in this bid request.
3) Exclusive and complete copyrights to all work purchased. (No GPL, GNU, 3rd party components, etc. unless all copyright ramifications are explained AND AGREED TO by the buyer on the site per the coder's Seller Legal Agreement).
## Platform
VB (up to VB6) preferred