Subj : FIDOPOLS Echolist Update
To   : Janis Kracht
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Sat Jun 20 2020 19:44:22

-=> Janis Kracht wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

 JK> I've just replied to Vince in netmail about this... but no,
 JK> BBBS doesn't use JAM, it uses a proprietary format for it's
 JK> message areas.

Okay, thanks for the correction.  Not sure why I thought BBBS used JAM...

 JK> I use a switch on bbbs to generate the "raw stats" for each
 JK> area, sort the areas, then run a formula using awk and sort
 JK> on those stats to generate what you see in the FidoGazette.

Ah, okay, that makes sense.  I do have a nice utility for Squish that does a
lot of that type of statistics gathering but it's meant more for billing than
just general usage.

Later,
Sean


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