Hi! Wilfred,

On 09/18/2017 04:33 AM, you wrote:

 WvV> And I learned a new English word: "paucity"...
 WvV> You're the first.

I'm happy to be of assistance.  WARNING: you may already realize that
English is my first language but you might be surprised to learn that I
/failed/ at it as a formal subject in high school.  :)

 PQ>> I used to think that FastEcho did its thing rather well until I saw
 PQ>> the reports from CrashMail II.  I can send you a copy of this
 PQ>> afternoon's report as an example, if you're interested...

 WvV> I'm mildly interested. The ftools stat function is probably a remnant
 WvV> from the time fmail only supported the hudson message base. I never used
 WvV> it myself.

Ah, yes.  I had thought the same myself, and that it was designed as a
diagnostic tool rather than as an informative one.

To take a step backwards for a second: you already know bad my C
programming skill is.  That's a fact.  I had cause to give the CrashMail
sources a cursory look over and saw a possibility of perhaps grafting Johan
Billing's statistics analysis code into FMail.  It seemed to be fairly
modular.  I looked at one routine that delivered two functions: read stats,
or, write stats.  I do not know how it sat in the whole puzzle that is CM
II, to deliver a report.

 WvV> Aren't there external utils that can do stats on jam areas?

Ah, yes.  I've spotted one possibility of Michiel's manufacture, on his
website.  I will explore that further, again.

Thank you for your time, Wilfred.

Cheers,
Paul.

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