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@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ the Free Software Foundation.
What's that?
There's a multitude of tools for the statistical examination of
newsgroups: number of postings month or per person, longest
newsgroups: number of postings per month or per person, longest
threads, and so on (see <http://th-h.de/infos/usenet/stats.php>
[German language] for an incomplete list). Most of them use a per-
newsgroup approach while NewsStats is hierarchy oriented.
@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Workflow
That raw data will be regularly - e.g. monthly - processed to a
second set of database tables each dedicated to a certain
statistical aspect, e.g. number of postings per group per month.
statistical aspect, e.g. number of postings per group and month.
Several kinds of reports can then be generated from those result
tables.
@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ Workflow
Prerequisites
NewsStats is written in Perl (5.8.x and above) and makes use of a
MySQL database, so you'll need Perl, some modules, mysql and, of
course, an INN.
MySQL database, so you will need Perl, some modules, mysql and, of
course, INN.
* Perl 5.8.x with standard modules
- Cwd
@ -62,12 +62,12 @@ Getting Started
table. See the feedlog.pl man page for more information.
You can process that data via 'gatherstats.pl'; currently only the
tabulation of postings per group per month is supported. More to
tabulation of postings per group and month is supported. More to
come. See the gatherstats.pl man page for more information.
Report generation is handled by specialised scripts for each
report type. Currently only reports on the number of postings per
group per month are supported; you can use 'groupstats.pl' for
group and month are supported; you can use 'groupstats.pl' for
this. See the groupstats.pl man page for more information.
Reporting Bugs
@ -95,3 +95,4 @@ Author
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net>
<http://th-h.de/>