Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!anu-news!list From: munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston) Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news Subject: RE: Arbitron wanted Message-ID: <8911232247.AA09261@uunet.uu.net> Date: 24 Nov 89 14:40:09 GMT Sender: ANU-NEWS Discussion Reply-To: Geoff Huston Lines: 18 >There is a program called (I think) "Arbitron" for Unix machines that >runs through all the user's directories and checks to see if they >read USENET news, and which newsgroups they subscribe to, and counts >them all up, and produces a nice report of these improtant statistics. > >Is there a simmiar program for use with ANU-NEWS and a VAX/VMS system? Not as such - certainly a similar type of program could scan the NEWSRC files of each local user, and the content of the unix and VMS newsrc files are similar in both format and semantics, but the differences are such that the arbitron program would require work to understand the VMS newsrc format. >If there is, please let me know where I can FTP it from, or perhaps someone >in net-land could arrange to Email it to me... who wants to do the port?? Geoff Huston