I now have a mirror script, which I have posted onto the dev wiki (which has ignored my leading spaces ):).

http://openguides.org/dev/?node=Mirror

This script enables "hoovering" an existing guide and keeping it in line using a cron job.

This is the fruition of some late night IRC sessions with Earle.

See also my use.perl journal entry: http://use.perl.org/~ivorw/journal/27209

enjoy,

Ivor.