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Re: 1 new or 3?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 5 Jun 2000 04:07:09 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > I just posted to loc.ch.zh.zue... a group that had no posts to it other than
> > the two starter posts back in 1998.
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> > So that is post #3 and 1 new one in the last 24 hours right?
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> > But the traffic report page shows **3** new posts. Not so. Bug or feature?
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> Somewhere in between a bug and a feature. The traffic page considered the
> group as empty when there were only 2 posts because it disregards groups with
> only 2 posts. When the count jumped from 2 to 3, the traffic page saw it as
> no longer empty and has now begun tracking it. If a fourth message appears,
> it would be compared to the 3, not to 0.
Sounds like kind of a misfeature :-), you must have a hard coded "ignore if
2"... so just hack in another hard coding "if this is a jump from 2 to
something, pretend you weren't ignoring the 2's and just show (something-2) new
instead"
++lar
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| Yes, but since most newsgroups have the welcome to <newsgroup> and the Lugnet terms of use messages posted to it on startup, there would be little or no point in considering these two messages as traffic. :-) -- Cheers ... Geoffrey Hyde Larry (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Somewhere in between a bug and a feature. The traffic page considered the group as empty when there were only 2 posts because it disregards groups with only 2 posts. When the count jumped from 2 to 3, the traffic page saw it as no longer empty (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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