pdvscm@prcpto.PRC.SID (Steve Monroe) (06/10/88)
I would like to get some idea of how much people here are really
reading the news here. We keep quite a bit of news around but
I'm not really sure how useful it is to anyone. I can look at
peoples .newsrc files and figure out what groups they are reading
and how up-to-date they are but I would like to know more so that
I can expire less useful things sooner (I get tired of trying to
go to parent articles only to not find them :-).
How the question - has anyone done up any patches to vnews (that's
what 99.9% of the people here use) to do any data collection on
how many of the articles marked as "read" in the .newsrc file have
been skipped over after the header or if the body of the message
has been read?
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Thanks