NAME

       News::Scan::Thread - keep track of threads in a Usenet newsgroup

SYNOPSIS

           use News::Scan::Thread;

           my $thr = News::Scan::Thread->new($news_scan_article_obj);

DESCRIPTION

       This module provides a class whose objects can be used to keep track of threads of
       discussion in a Usenet newsgroup.

CONSTRUCTOR

       new ( ARTICLE )
           "ARTICLE" should be a "News::Scan::Article" object or an object of some class derived
           from "News::Scan::Article".

           "new" performs some initialization and returns a "News::Scan::Thread".

METHODS

       subject
           Returns this thread's subject.

       volume
           Returns the volume in bytes generated in this thread.

       articles
           Returns the number of posts to this thread.

       header_volume
           Returns the volume in bytes of the headers in this thread's articles.

       header_lines
           Returns the number of header lines in this thread's articles.

       body_volume
           Returns the volume in bytes of the message bodies of this thread's articles.

       body_lines
           Returns the number of lines in this thread's message bodies.

       orig_volume
           Returns the volume in bytes of the original content of this thread's articles.

       orig_lines
           Returns the number of original lines in this thread's articles.

       sig_volume
           Returns the volume in bytes of the signatures of this thread's articles.

       sig_lines
           Returns the number of signature lines in this thread's articles.

SEE ALSO

       News::Scan, News::Scan::Article

AUTHOR

       Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 1997 Greg Bacon.  All Rights Reserved.  This library is free software.  You
       may distribute and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.