# List containing idea's for NewsGrab's future

oO My own ideas

- Newsgrab handles a multipart posted twice, with the same name, badly.
  A fix is needed

- Better input verification.
- CTRL-C while fetching files, skips to next file. Good idea or not? It's
  probably better to define fx. <ESC> to perform this job

- Give multible files on the command line.. Though you can give a pretty
  global regex, it might not be easy to perform exactly the fetch desired

- Enhanced error code messaging

- News mewssage hash:

  $arts{KEY}->{'date'}
            ->{'complete'}
	    ->{'total'}
	    ->{'arts'}->{$message_no}->{'subject'}
	                             ->{'message_id'}
  Now we should be able to do the error report.

oO Ideas from C R Johnson

- Generating a report of the missing articles in a multipart file               
- automatic use of alternative newserver to get missing articles                
- caching of headers, for a limited time, so they don't have to be              
  re-retieved on every use.                                                       

oO Ideas from DP
- Take the environment variable COLUMNS to be the size of the terminal, and
  not a static column size of 80 chars.
  Note: This is not that easy in perl, if you want to keep cross-platform
        compatability
 


                                                                               


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