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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Thank you all for your valuable help.
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Nescan seems to be a tool applicable to
newsgroups and not web-based discussion forums. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>I have contacted a PERL programmer and I am
waiting for a reply. If this doesn't work I will have to carry it through
manually. I am thinking that I could use a sample of the messages, for example
the two most popular conferences, and analyse their messages instead of
attempting the impossible task of analyzing the total of the interactions in the
group. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Thank you once more, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>K.D. </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>