Xref: utzoo news.admin:8076 news.software.nntp:480 Path: utzoo!utstat!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!mhres!jv From: jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.nntp Subject: Re: arbitron/nntp Message-ID: Date: 6 Jan 90 19:23:48 GMT References: <%YJ$W$@masalla.fulcrum.bt.co.uk> Sender: jv@mhres.mh.nl Organization: Multihouse Gouda, the Netherlands Lines: 32 In-reply-to: igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk's message of 5 Jan 90 10:56:15 GMT In article <%YJ$W$@masalla.fulcrum.bt.co.uk> igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten) writes: > I've just off-loaded my news-reading overhead from our news spool > machine; people now read news with rrn or xrn from other hosts. Is > there any received wisdom on how best to manage my arbitron returns? Yes, there is. I have rewritten arbitron in perl, and added the capability to start slave processes on nntp-slave hosts to gather the statistics. At the end, all newsreaders detected on the slave hosts will count as newsreaders on the originating host so it will yield the same results as if all newsreaders had been physically present on the originating host. I've sent a copy to Brian Reid, who promised to incorporate it in the arbitron distributions, but I haven't seen it coming back yet (Brian, are you there?). We agreed upon a special identification to tell the ordinary arbitron, the notesfile arbitron and the perl arbitron [also the VMS arbitron?] apart, so the final word is his. For this reason I'm very reluctant giving copies away, since it may not work as expected. Johan -- -- Johan Vromans jv@mh.nl via internet backbones Multihouse Automatisering bv uucp: ..!{uunet,hp4nl}!mh.nl!jv Doesburgweg 7, 2803 PL Gouda, The Netherlands phone/fax: +31 1820 62944/62500 ------------------------ "Arms are made for hugging" -------------------------