Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!ihnp4!nsc!chuqui 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 Article-I.D.: nsc.1962 Posted: Tue Dec 4 14:07:20 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 5-Dec-84 00:35:22 EST Organization: Plaid Heaven Lines: 24 References <6644@yale.ARPA> Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Cheshire Chuqui) Distribution: net Organization: Plaid Heaven Keywords: 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...) -- From the center of a Plaid pentagram: Chuq Von Rospach {cbosgd,decwrl,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA ~But you know, monsieur, that as long as she wears the claw of the dragon upon her breast you can do nothing-- her soul belongs to me!~