You could schedule it with your OS (e.g. a cron job, or using putting in a .bat file and using task-scheduler on Win32). Or you could start the program manually and use it in a loop like this:

my $n = 10 * 60;
while (1) {
      sleep $n; # sleep 10 minutes
      # do your stuff to get and parse newsgroup stuff
      }
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