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Re: 1 new or 3?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 5 Jun 2000 11:42:09 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Geoffrey Hyde writes:
> 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. :-)
I think you're agreeing with me??? That's kind of what I am saying too.
> Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message
> news:Fvny3x.186@lugnet.com...
> > 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.
> > > >
> > > > So that is post #3 and 1 new one in the last 24 hours right?
> > > >
> > > > But the traffic report page shows **3** new posts. Not so. Bug or • feature?
> > >
> > > 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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| Umm ... Mate, what was the original question for then? ;-) My thinking is that it is probably better for the lugnet server not to bother with low traffic newsgroups at all. It would mean that the server doesn't have to worry about tracking them. -- (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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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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