The ausadmin project is designed to automate the
maintenance of USENET newsgroup hierarchies (such
as aus.*) and provide end-users with useful online
information regarding all the newsgroups in the
hierarchy as well as proposals (Request For
Discussion and Call For Votes). It consists of a
software package and a Web site package. The
software implements Perl classes which maintain
data structures representing existing newsgroups
and proposals for new newsgroups, and the Web site
is mostly dynamically generated by Perl CGI and
PHP code which reads the data structures mentioned
above. The Web site is intended to provide the
user with as much information as possible about
the newsgroups which are under management.
