NAME
statnews - generate some useful statistics out of a newsgroup
SYNOPSIS
statnews [OPTIONS] NEWSGROUP
DESCRIPTION
The statnews command get some useful statistics out of a newsgroup. It
displays things like how many articles each author posted, how many
characters was written, how many lines were quoted, how many articles
belong to each thread, the number of messages/characters per day, the
average message length, and so on.
OPTIONS
--capitalize(*)
Whether to capitalize the name of both the sender and the receiver
of each message (default is "--capitalize": yes). This option is
useful to collect "AUTHOR" together with "author", "Author", and
"AuThor".
--dotted(*)
Whether to translate "." to "/" in NEWSGROUP (default is
"--nodotted": does translate). This option may be useful if your
system stores each newsgroup in a dedicate directory (e.g.,
news.useless.group) instead that by hierarchy (e.g.,
news/useless/group), or if your system has a news archive stored
this way.
--from=DATE
Set the date statistics start from (DATE format is "dd/mm/yyyy",
GMT).
--help
Display the help summary.
--spooldir=SPOOLDIR
Search NEWSGROUP in SPOOLDIR (default is
/var/spool/news/articles/).
--to=DATE
Set the date statistics end by (DATE format is "dd/mm/yyyy", GMT).
--width=WIDTH
Set the terminal width to WIDTH columns (default is 80, with a
minimum of 70).
Options may be conveniently abbreviated and prefixed by "-" instead of
"--"; the "=" may be omitted or substituted with one or more blanks.
Options listed with (*) may be negated by adding the prefix "no" in
front of them (e.g., "--dotted" => "--nodotted").
RETURN VALUE
The statnews command returns 0 on success and a positive integer on
errors.
ENVIRONMENT
The environment variable STATNEWS can hold a set of default options for
statnews.
These options are interpreted first by the program and can be
overridden by explicit command line parameters. For example:
sh: "STATNEWS="--nocapital --width=132"; export STATNEWS"
csh:
"setenv STATNEWS "--nocapital --width=132""
FILES
The default spool directory is /var/spool/news/articles/.
SEE ALSO
rn(1), readnews(1).
BUGS
There are no known bugs.
UNRESTRICTIONS
This program is copylefted. Refer to the GNU General Public License
for conditions of use.
AUTHOR
This program has been written and is actively maintained by
Davide Giovanni Maria Salvetti <salve@debian.org>.
HISTORY
This program was originally aimed for use with FidoNet style echo areas
under Debian GNU/Linux. It can be succesfully used with Usenet
newsgroups as well. More precisely, it can be used with every message
base that stores each message in a file in some directory.