On 2009-12-14, BottleBob wrote:
Statistics wrote:
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Total posts considered: 21,371 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Dec 14 00:20:04 2009
Latest article: Mon Dec 14 00:42:38 2009


Wes:

It it still you who are posting these stats? On a quick perusal of
Google, it seem the stats have been inaccurate for a couple of months
now. There can't possibly be 20,000 posts per week, probably 1/10 of
that.

My newsfeed sometimes shows up with 1000-2000 articles to
download, which in reality turns out to be a few hundred, of which my
killfile zaps all but about 100. I think what what we are seeing is the
artifact of "sporge" floods which have been cancelled before you (or I)
started up, and as a result, the system tries going by the article
number I last read and the highest article number in the news spool,
subtracting one from the other to get the theoretical number of
articles, but it returns too high because the cancelled articles don't
back down the subsequent article numbers. And it takes too much time
and net resources to actually count what is really there before you come
to read them.

Enjoy,
DoN.

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On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:56:56 -0700, the infamous Steve Ackman
scrawled the following:

In , on 16 Dec 2009 06:14:52
GMT, DoN. Nichols, wrote:

My newsfeed sometimes shows up with 1000-2000 articles to
download, which in reality turns out to be a few hundred, of which my
killfile zaps all but about 100. I think what what we are seeing is the
artifact of "sporge" floods which have been cancelled before you (or I)
started up, and as a result, the system tries going by the article
number I last read and the highest article number in the news spool,

The Garry Knight script only counts actual articles
downloaded by fetchnews/to leafnode. Any articles
cancelled upstream have no effect. The downloaded
articles will be sequentially numbered.

I have a filter on leafnode for number of groups
crossposted to, so I get a somewhat smaller number than
Wes. Going back seven days from now, I get

Total posts considered: 1,483 over 7 days
Earliest article: Wed Dec 9 00:57:09 2009
Latest article: Wed Dec 16 00:37:11 2009
Original articles: 112, replies: 1,371
Total size of posts: 4,231,947 bytes (4,132K) (4.04M)
Average 211 articles per day, 0.58 MB per day, 2,853 bytes per article

I think Wes' problem stems from the toy OS trying
to emulate a real OS. ;-)

Oh! Well and quite neutrally said, Stevie. gd&r

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Steve Ackman wrote:

I think Wes' problem stems from the toy OS trying
to emulate a real OS. ;-)

That is likely the reason. I'm curious why two w2k/cygwin boxes have different results.

Wes

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Larry Jaques wrote:

Every day above ground is a Good Day(tm).


Unless there is incoming fire.

Steve Ackman wrote:

That is likely the reason. I'm curious why two w2k/cygwin boxes have
different results.

I'm not. ;-)



Maybe over the holidays, I'll move the few remaining processes from the old failing
windows box and install a new bare disk I have sitting here followed by installing the
Ubuntu EMC2 distro. My other thought is to shop Goodwill a few days after Christmas to
see what gets donated computer wise.

Either way, a linux box is in the works soon.

There is the outside chance that the 1.7 release of Cygwin will be magic as it drops
support for pre w2k operating systems.

Learning Perl and finding the flaw is a remote possiblity.

Wes
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