The CS Department likes to set up newsgroups for each class to allow professor/TA/student conversations (though this custom is being supplanted by Whiteboard’s discussion boards). I’m not a big Usenet person, and checking said newsgroups would involve me having to remember to go out of my way and fire up Pine. However, since (timely) announcements are often posted in newsgroups, reading them regularly is necessary. One thing that I check often (perhaps too often) is my RSS newsreader, so the obvious thing to do would be to bring newsgroups to it. Since I very rarely post, having read-only access for the most part wasn’t bothersome (i.e. in those situations I can in fact fire up Pine). The result is nntp2rss.pl, a simple Perl script that uses the Net::NNTP module to generate a NNTPfeed based on a newsgroups. [ Via Scripting News ]