NESIC Frequently Asked Questions and call for Web site contributors

[Thug]

I had already added the new WBM site under the meets section.

[Sean]

Originally Posted by y2k43door

I had already added the new WBM site under the meets section.

I saw you had a link to the thread but not the new www.wickedbigmeet.com site...so I added it. WBM 2006 site under sites, WBM 2006 thread under meets.

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[jblaine]

Sean, what are you guys using for scraping? Got any code to share?

[Sean]

Originally Posted by jblaine

Sean, what are you guys using for scraping? Got any code to share?

You'll need to install the supporting PERL modules from CPAN but here's my quick and dirty five minute sucky code. It's truly barebones with no date support but it at least displays the titles.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use LWP::Simple;
use HTML::TokeParser;
use XML::RSS;
use CGI;

my $content = get( "http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=18" ) or die $!;
my $stream = HTML::TokeParser->new( \$content ) or die $!;
my $rss = XML::RSS->new( version => '0.9' );

$rss->channel(title       => "NESIC Forum",
              link        => "http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=18",
              description => "New England Subaru Impreza Club Forum",
              language    => "en-us");

$rss->image(title => "NESIC Forum",
            url   => "",
            link  => "http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=18");

my ($tag, $headline, $url);

while ( $tag = $stream->get_tag("a") ) {
    $url = $tag->[1]{href} || "--";
    my $urlpage = $url;
    if ( $url =~ /showthread.php/ && $url !~ /page/ && $url !~ /lastpost/ ) {
        $headline = $stream->get_trimmed_text('/a');
        $url = CGI::escapeHTML($url);
        $url = 'http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/'.$url;
        $rss->add_item( title => $headline, link => $url);
    }
}

$rss->save("/var/www/vhosts/trunkmonkey.com/httpdocs/feeds/nesicforum.xml");

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[jblaine]

Thanks!

[skaretdavid]

Hi, I am new here at NASIOC and just want to know what is involved to join NESIC. I live in Torrington, CT and didn't know what the difference was between NESIC and Tri-State. Thanks for any input.

[Sean]

Originally Posted by skaretdavid

Hi, I am new here at NASIOC and just want to know what is involved to join NESIC. I live in Torrington, CT and didn't know what the difference was between NESIC and Tri-State. Thanks for any input.

Officially, CT is part of NESIC (New England Subaru Impreza Club) and NESIC is an official chapter of NASIOC (North American Subaru Impreza Owners Club). But quite a few guys from Southern and Western CT hang out with Tri-State, a region of NASIOC.

The only difference between a region and a chapter is that chapters are officially organized clubs with their own Web sites recognized by NASIOC while regions are simply areas of the country without their own chapter. Or at least that's how it was explained to me by a NASIOC Supermod.

Edit: And you've already done all you need to do to join NESIC...you signed up for an account! No fees required!

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[Mike Wevrick]

Where can I get NESIC/NASIOC decals? I saw a few at WBM but don't see them in the NASIOC store.

[redobs]

NESIC decals you can get from www.rallydecals.com.

[BlackSTI2006]

Originally Posted by redobs

NESIC decals you can get from www.rallydecals.com.

im kinda mad there wasnt a booth with them printing them out again at WBM.....

[Mike Wevrick]

Originally Posted by redobs

NESIC decals you can get from www.rallydecals.com.

I don't see them on the site. Are they custom order?

[redobs]

Well, what do you know. Not sure what's going on. PM KC and ask him.

[Garandman]

So are NESIC decals still available anywhere?

[AWDPilot]

http://store.nasioc.com/