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From: bernd@bhpcpd.kembla.oz.au (Bernd Wechner)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Monitoring group volume and popularity
Message-ID: <1990Sep7.101916.1849@bhpcpd.kembla.oz.au>
Date: 7 Sep 90 10:19:16 GMT
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Considering the volume of news we have to deal with at the moment and
the shortage of disk space on which to store it, I would like to know if
there exists any software which I can run on a regular basis to monitor
the volume of individual newsgroups and/or how popular they are.

Specifically it should produce a log (perhaps daily or weekly) of 
each newsgroup and how much disk space it is using (preferably sorted by
size), and how many people are known to be reading that group. This
information would be very helpful in deciding the expire times or whether
we should stop receiving a group alltogether (if it is very large and
unpopular say).

I have written a shell script which will do part of the job for me, but
its not as nice as it might be and I can see no point in improving it if
such software already exists.

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Bernd Wechner, Research Officer                     (bernd@bhpcpd.kembla.oz.au)
BHP Coated Products Division, Research and Technology Centre
Port Kembla, New South Wales, Australia.