Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!maytag!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Articles most often cited in comp.all
Message-ID: <69652@looking.on.ca>
Date: 31 Dec 89 05:16:33 GMT
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Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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Class: information,original

It's quite simple.   Are a lot of people actually *using* these stats?

If there are a lot, then it may be worth posting them, although I
would suggest news.lists and not here.  If there are not a lot, then
those few who are keen should just get the software.

The following program will process the newsgroups in the .newsrc and
write out a reference count for each message-id.  It doesn't attach
subjects, but another simple program could do that.  (An inefficient
2nd. newsclip pass could also do that.)

(The Newsclip compiler was posted recently to comp.sources.misc)
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database artids;
extern string array references;

procedure init()
{
	artids = fresh_database( 10000 );		/* empty database */
}
procedure article()
{
	int i;
	/* for each id in References, increment ref count */
	if( references != nilarray )
		for( i = 0; i < count(references); i++ )
			artids[references[i]]++;
}
procedure terminate()
{
	write_database( artids, "/tmp/refcount", 0 );
}
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473