"Philip Brown"  wrote in message 
news:44A736ED.392.fidobbscarni{at}aceshigh.dyn.dhs.org...
> SA>> Do you run a Synchronet BBS with FidoNet/FTN message areas?
>
> SA>> From FTP: ftp://flamingstar.no-ip.info/main/general/echolog.zip (FOR
> SA>> DOS/WINDOWS ONLY)
>
> SA>Thanks for posting this here, since it is a good sysop utility that was 
> on
> SA>my "to program list".
>
> I wasn't for sure if Synchronet had anything like that so started
> writing a program, which I like to do.

Synchronet does not, to my knowledge.

> SA>Something akin to the Squish reports I used to get.  I have downloaded 
> your
> SA>utility and think it's pretty good, I'll send you email regarding 
> anything
> SA>particular.
>
> In June, the program counted 54,677 messages exported and 74
> messages imported.
>
> I wonder if I could get the logs from other fido/ftn tossers and
> look at them and see how I could add them to the program to process.

Squish easily handled this volume and more.  I was a net co-ordinator 
1:244/0 and used the inbound reports, they were very nicely detailed.  After 
I examine your reports I will try to offer advice.

> What do you think?

I think if you can write it to examine *.pkt files before they are processed 
that it might be more widely  applicable.

> SA>It's nice to see a new, useful utility being advertised in an echo 
> about bbs
> SA>survival.
>
> Back in the late 80's, I wrote a program for Spitfire sysop's to read
> the file lists for each area and create a bulletin tallying the file
> sizes and grand total and creating ascii/ansi bulletins. That was a few
> computers ago, not sure what happened to that.

Focus on *.pkt :)
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