>> Looks ok so far. In the images table would it be a good idea to have a
>> reference to the original p.b.i thread (message ID or http link or
>> something?).
>
> This would be a simple attribute, not a table on its own!

Yes sorry I didn't mean reference as in a databased reference.

>> Should be quite easy to write some code that would trawl p.b.i and
>> populate the tables (at least most of it, apart from the keywords).
>> You'd then need something else running that continuously monitors posts
>> to p.b.i and indexes them in real time.
>
> I don't know how to write code to automatically scan a newsgroup...

Nor do I, but I doubt the nntp client protocol is particularly taxing to 
implement. Just thought it would save a lot of manual work.

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