Hello Wilfred,

 KW>> I've heard arguments that with multiple feeds that there's no need for
 KW>> an echolist (no backbone, ergo, no echolist) but the point that you
 KW>> need to find out what's available, somehow, seems to be missed.

 WvV> Just follow the STATS area for a couple of weeks. You'll get a pretty
good
 WvV> idea of what's available and has traffic...

Why do that when you can run your own?

Bj”rn Felten wrote a message in JAMNNTPD -

30 day statistics from March 2018:

Total number of users: 30
Total connection time: 38d 12h 37m 17s in 5902 connections
Total posted messages: 94

From March 2019:

Total number of users: 93
Total connection time: 19d 17h 6m 17s in 7700 connections
Total posted messages: 214

I used a slightly modified loganalyser.pl by Johan Billing:


http://eljaco.se/FILES/Billing/la.rar

The original:

http://eljaco.se/FILES/Billing/loganalyzer.zip


Nobody is dependent on the STATS area anymore.  Both sysops
and probationary sysops can compile their own, thanks to such
programs being freely available.

--Lee

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