NAME
    ThreatNet::Message - An object representation of a ThreatNet channel
    message

DESCRIPTION
    ThreatNet is an evolving idea. It's homepage at time of publishing is

    <http://ali.as/threatnet/>

    This module is an abstract base class for a ThreatNet channel message,
    and allows you to create objects representing threat messages in a
    channel.

    ThreatNet itself is not yet available and this module has been uploaded
    seperately so people working on ThreatNet can play with the various
    compenents in different ways before we come to a decision about what
    collection of modules will be included in a core ThreatNet.pm package.

METHODS
  new $message
    The "new" constructor takes a string containing the actual channel
    message and creates a new object. Please be aware that this method is
    likely to be heavily overloaded, so there may be additional
    requirements.

    This base class is extremely flexible and makes absolutely no
    requirements on the content of the message, even that is has length.

    For an example of a potentially more useful Message class, see
    ThreatNet::Message::GenericIPv4

    Returns a "ThreatNet::Message" object on success, false if the message
    is not a valid message for a particular message class, or "undef" on
    error, such as being passed a non-string.

  message
    For any "ThreatNet::Messsage" class, the "message" accessor will always
    return the message in string form, although it may have been
    canonicalised and might not be identical to the original string.

  created
    The "created" method returns the unix epoch time that the
    "ThreatNet::Message" object was created (on the machine on which the
    object was created).

    For some situations, this will be sufficient for use as the time at
    which the event occured. Please be aware however, that it is "not" the
    time at which the event actually occured.

    Some protocols may supply the actual event time independantly.

    Returns the unix epoch time in seconds as an integer.

  event_time
    The "event_time" method returns the event time, or as close an estimate
    as the object is capable of providing.

    Unless the "ThreatNet::Message" class is actually aware of the true
    event time, it will generally estimate using the object creation time.

    Returns the unix epoch time in seconds as an integer.

SUPPORT
    All bugs should be filed via the bug tracker at

    <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=ThreatNet-Message>

    For other issues, or commercial enhancement and support, contact the
    author

AUTHORS
    Adam Kennedy (Maintainer), <http://ali.as/>, cpan@ali.as

SEE ALSO
    <http://ali.as/devel/threatnetwork.html>, ThreatNet::Topic

COPYRIGHT
    Copyright (c) 2004 - 2005 Adam Kennedy. All rights reserved. This
    program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
    the same terms as Perl itself.

    The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included
    with this module.