reid@decwrl.DEC.COM (Brian Reid) (11/15/86)
Many sites run older versions of arbitron. This is fine; installing new
software is a nuisance. However, with the new reorganization I've decided
that I'd like to measure one more thing, which I call "propagation".
To do this, I need to know the groups that reach your site even if nobody
reads them.
For those of you who are running news arbitrons older than 2.3
(it it doesn't have a version code in it, it's older than 2.3), could you
please make the following short patch:
< printf("9996 ReportDate\t%s\n","DATE")
<
< for (i = 1; i <= grpcount; i++) {
< if (grpcounts[i] > 0) {
< printf("%d %s\n",grpcounts[i], grpname[i])
< }
< }
< }
---
> printf("9996 ReportDate\t%s\n","DATE")
>
> for (i = 1; i <= grpcount; i++) {
> printf("%d %s\n",grpcounts[i], grpname[i])
> }
> }
In other words, delete the " if (grpcounts[i] > 0)" test, and its
corresponding close-curly-bracket. This will cause it to send out data on all
groups and not just on groups that people read.
Also, many of the very earliest arbitrons come from the era when I was doing
all of this from glacier. Glacier has been forwarding to me at decwrl for 6
months now, but glacier is about to disappear forever, and if you send your
aribtron reports there they will get lost.
--
Brian Reid
DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto CA
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