[morphman]

couple of ideas really.

1. is it possible to code a python script to download messages from an nntp server?

2. is it possible to unrar or unzip rar files on an xbox using a python script?

im thinking of an automated way to download xbox stuff from newsgroups directly to the xbox.

or how about a simple script that can display information from the xbox section of http://www.newzbin.com so you can download the message headers (with subscription of course) to a network drive?

[bubbajoebob]

you can access newsgroups via python using its builtin nntplib:
http://python.org/doc/2.3.5/lib/module-nntplib.html

i actually started on my 1st xbox python script yesterday. my idea was to pull down pictures from the newsgroups (cars of course ;-) ) and integrate that into a slideshow. it would also be cool to be able to rate the "content" to pull more from that poster, subject, etc. i haven't gotten very far and am sure someone else would do a quicker and better job since this is only my 3rd python script so still learning. at the moment it can pull all single-part pictures from a specified newsgroup and decode them (doesn't display them, only downloads and decodes).