>If this sounds dumb to you others, it probably is.
Nope. :-)
>I am interested in exporting news articles to either a Yarn folder or
>ASCII file and then importing that into an Access or Oracle database for
>better search functionality. This due to the many tips in different
>newsgroups which I find invaluable but can never find again when I need
>them.
I have a need for this as well, and I generally use a resource like
Dejanews (http://dejanews2.dejanews.com/forms/dnq.html) for newsgroup
searching rather than doing the work locally. :-)
FWIW, the export should be easy, since Yarn has export commands to
both a folder and to an ASCII file (hit F1 when viewing the newsgroup
list). The import I don't know about...
>Follow-ups here might infuriate those not interested so email would be
>fine. Will post a summary if there is enough outcry for that or else
>emailed to those interested.
Let those that dislike the answer be infuriated -- your question is
quite on-topic here AFAICT. :-)
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