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From: bernd@actisb.UUCP (Bernd-Gunter Nitzler)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re^2: Review of NN, a Usenet news reader
Keywords: rn, .newsrc, b&d, arbitron
Message-ID: <355@actisb.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jul 89 11:19:32 GMT
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brent@capmkt.COM (Brent Chapman) writes:
>It's important because "rn" isn't the only thing that expects a .newsrc file.
>The example that springs immediately to mind (and I'm sure there are others)
>is the "arbitron" program that gathers the data used to calculate the various
>USENET readership and propogation statistics.  Arbitron works by reading the
>.newsrc file of all the users on the system.  If they're using nn, they don't
>have a .newsrc (or they have one that hasn't been touched in a while, if they
>used to use rn), and thus don't get counted in the survey.

If someone is interrested in a special version of "arbitron" which
also scans the .nn/rc files then I can mail one.

Friday I mailed one version to reid@decwrl but it bounced and I'll try
it today again.

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