spoon:~> perl umistboard.pl Your .umistrc should be at: /home/chris/.umistrc .umistrc found. Posting as: (Elthek/chris@cpan.org) Enter subject: Perl client. Enter message body, end with a . on a line by itself: Right, sorry about that. I've written a perl client for top-posting, so that those of us who aren't on swanky Janet connections don't have to download 200K of message headers to be able to post. There'll shortly be a sample session at: http://printf.net/umistboard-sample.txt and the script itself at: http://printf.net/umistboard.txt It's untidy at the moment - I'll clean it up and add gtk at some point. It's quite nice to use, in that it keeps a config file with your name/e-mail, so you just have to write your message. Improvements really, really welcome. :-) ~C. . Post sent to server successfully. umistboard.pl finished.