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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
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Subject: [news.admin] Re: Activity monitor for newsgroups
Message-ID: <1990Nov21.205946.13741@ox.com>
Date: 21 Nov 90 20:59:46 GMT
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In article <1990Nov20.210359.5590@techbook.com> jamesd@techbook.com (James Deibele) writes:
>I would like to keep an eye on the newsgroups and figure out which ones I can
>mark as safely dead.  I'd also like to get a feeling of how many messages some
>of the groups get.  I imagine that I'm not alone in wanting to get some numbers
>on just what's flowing through here.  Has anyone written a script or program to
>do this?  
>
>Thanks!

The "arbit" program does all this and more.  It is in uunet's public
FTP/UUCP directory, ~/ClariNet/dynafeed.tar.Z
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Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473