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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Cheshire Chuqui)
Newsgroups: net.wanted.sources
Subject: local netnews usage statistics
Message-ID: <1962@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 14:07:20 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  4 14:07:20 1984
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Summary:

One word of warning on all of these programs for local netnews stats-- rn
now allows you to move the .newsrc out of $HOME, so there is no guarantee
that you'll find all of them unless you want to build enough intelligence
into your program to track RNINIT variables in the environment and all
sorts of other wonderful stuff. The other thing these programs don't do but
probably should is recognize .newsrc files that haven't been used in a long
time-- if someone hasn't accessed news in 30 days there is a good chance he
probably isn't reading news anymore and you can ignore that file.

chuq (no, I haven't implemented either...)

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