spain@mdcbbs.com (11/23/89)
I would like to find out which newsgroups are not being read over a period of time so that I can stop populating these newsgroups with unread newsitems :-). Does anyone have any suggestion on how we can do this? -- =================================================================== | Harrison M. Spain | Voice: (714) 952-6114 | | McDonnell Douglas M&E | Internet: spain@mdcbbs.com | | 5701 Katella Ave. | UUCP: uunet!mdcbbs!spain | | Cypress, CA 90630 | PSI: PSI%31060099980019::SPAIN | ===================================================================
gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston) (11/24/89)
>I would like to find out which newsgroups are not being read over a period of >time so that I can stop populating these newsgroups with unread newsitems :-). > >Does anyone have any suggestion on how we can do this? Code change - you need to record some kind of date/counter against newsgroups which are being read. This would need to be a code change (both in NEWS itself AND the NNTP server). A more circuitous route is to shuffle through the home directories of all users and read their NEWSRC files, comparing the last read item against the current top item number in the news db. This will take just a little cpu time (i.e. heaps!!), and also some coding. Geoff