I recently got my Usenet server up and running again the way that I like.
So far its been up for about 30 hours and I wanted to share some
statistics.
In the past 30 hours:
I have downloaded 112MB of new articles.
Total number of articles: 27041
The alt hierarchy is the largest with 7487 articles.
The top 15 newsgroups (that I carry) are:
2997 free.usenet
813 alt.atheism
742 talk.politics.guns
651 fr.soc.politique
597 rec.arts.tv
505 alt.test
502 rec.arts.drwho
419 rec.food.cooking
411 free.pt
402 alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
401 uk.legal
395 soc.culture.jewish
385 soc.culture.usa
385 alt.arts.poetry.comments
382 alt.checkmate
Are you actively implementing spam countermeasures and telling us the remaining article counts?
Are you avoiding the double counting of
crossposts? Several of the higher volume newsgroups mentioned, sigh,
there isn't necessarily discussion but there are users who simply
plagarize articles found on the Web, reposting them to Usenet,
crossposting among a number of other so-called higher-volume newsgroups.
I don't count any of that as discussion but I have no idea how to automatically identify articles plagarized from the Web to not count
them as Usenet traffic, to get some idea of how much discussion truly
takes place.
I've said before and I'll say again that reposting from the Web isn't desireable traffic and while it increases someone's poast count, it
doesn't keep discussion going. That happens only when people write their
own articles for Usenet and not reposting someone else's words.
419 rec.food.cooking
Finally! You are talking about a newsgroup with active on-topic
discussion.
The scripts can be found here:
https://github.com/tgeek77/UsenetReport
On Tue, 13 Sep 2022 06:24:54 -0000 (UTC), Jason Evans wrote:
The scripts can be found here:
https://github.com/tgeek77/UsenetReport
Sorry, wrong link. Here are the scripts: >https://github.com/tgeek77/Usenet_Scripts
However, if an article is crossposted, on the News server, isn't the
article stored just once and referenced by other newsgroups? Doesn't
that make it possible to not count the crosspost redundantly? That won't identify non-discussion articles (plagarized Web pages) and FAQ
repostings to the extent any cron jobs remain?
I have downloaded 112MB of new articles.
Total number of articles: 27041
The alt hierarchy is the largest with 7487 articles.
2997 free.usenet
411 free.pt
On Tue, 13 Sep 2022 15:57:58 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman wrote:
However, if an article is crossposted, on the News server, isn't the >>article stored just once and referenced by other newsgroups? Doesn't
that make it possible to not count the crosspost redundantly? That won't >>identify non-discussion articles (plagarized Web pages) and FAQ
repostings to the extent any cron jobs remain?
That's not how INN works. . . .
On Tue, 13 Sep 2022 15:57:58 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman wrote:
However, if an article is crossposted, on the News server, isn't the article stored just once and referenced by other newsgroups? Doesn't
that make it possible to not count the crosspost redundantly? That won't identify non-discussion articles (plagarized Web pages) and FAQ
repostings to the extent any cron jobs remain?
That's not how INN works. You get one text file per article per newsgroup. Users who crosspost to 5 newsgroups generate 5 news articles across the network and those all appear seperately. I believe it's always been that
way even during the UUCP days.
Here are the different storage options for INN: https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/inn/docs-2.7/install.html#S6.
I use tradspool because it is simplest for troubleshooting.
Just have a look at those 'multiple files', I think you will find that they're actually links (hard? soft?) to a single physical file.
On 13 Sep 2022 18:34:31 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:
Just have a look at those 'multiple files', I think you will find that
they're actually links (hard? soft?) to a single physical file.
I stand corrected. I checked for myself and they are hard links. I will
look into updating my scripts to only show
the original files and not the linked file.
On 13 Sep 2022 18:34:31 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:
Just have a look at those 'multiple files', I think you will find that they're actually links (hard? soft?) to a single physical file.
I stand corrected. I checked for myself and they are hard links. I
will look into updating my scripts to only show the original files and
not the linked file.
Sysop: | Keyop |
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Location: | Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK |
Users: | 349 |
Nodes: | 16 (0 / 16) |
Uptime: | 146:45:07 |
Calls: | 7,614 |
Calls today: | 2 |
Files: | 12,792 |
Messages: | 5,684,930 |
Posted today: | 2 |