Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]
| From | pschleck@panix.com (Paul W. Schleck) |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | news.groups |
| Subject | Re: List of active (used) groups |
| Date | 2026-06-23 13:02 +0000 |
| Organization | PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC |
| Message-ID | <111e056$psg$1@reader1.panix.com> (permalink) |
| References | <1115k9u$fnd1$1@solani.org> |
In <1115k9u$fnd1$1@solani.org> Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> writes: >Hello! >Some time ago we created a getting started guide for setting up >newsgroup access. >https://www.big-8.org/wiki/Getting_Started_with_Usenet >I would like to extend that with a list of active groups, e.g. groups >that received new posts in the last year etc. >Is there an easy way for server operators to create such statistics? >-- >Gruß >Marco >Spam bitte an abfalleimer2001@stinkedores.dorfdsl.de The late Alexander Bartolich had a script to accomplish this, used to help identify inactive newsgroups for removal. It likely worked as a client, accessing via NNTP a remote news server that had a long article history. To help reduce false positives, it searched not only for article activity in a given newsgroup, it looked for articles that had a "References:" header in them, indicating likely followup discussion, versus just one-way SPAM or flooding. Roman Racine may still have this script, as he had access to Alexander's account and files after he passed. Regardless, this feature could probably be easily added to any other similar newsgroup activity report generating script. -- Paul W. Schleck pschleck@panix.com
Back to news.groups | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread
List of active (used) groups Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2026-06-20 10:51 +0200
Re: List of active (used) groups Thomas Hochstein <thh@thh.name> - 2026-06-20 11:46 +0200
Re: List of active (used) groups "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2026-06-20 15:00 +0000
Re: List of active (used) groups pschleck@panix.com (Paul W. Schleck) - 2026-06-23 12:31 +0000
Re: List of active (used) groups Steve Bonine <spb@pobox.com> - 2026-06-23 18:28 -0500
Re: List of active (used) groups pschleck@panix.com (Paul W. Schleck) - 2026-06-24 03:46 +0000
Re: List of active (used) groups Steve Bonine <spb@pobox.com> - 2026-06-25 17:56 -0500
Re: List of active (used) groups gmc@metro.cx (Koen Martens) - 2026-06-20 17:22 +0000
Re: List of active (used) groups gmc@metro.cx (Koen Martens) - 2026-06-20 17:31 +0000
Re: List of active (used) groups Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2026-06-20 21:18 +0200
Re: List of active (used) groups Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2026-06-20 21:28 +0200
Re: List of active (used) groups gmc@metro.cx (Koen Martens) - 2026-06-21 06:59 +0000
Re: List of active (used) groups Steve Bonine <spb@pobox.com> - 2026-06-22 10:16 -0500
Re: List of active (used) groups gmc@metro.cx (Koen Martens) - 2026-06-22 17:50 +0000
Re: List of active (used) groups "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2026-06-22 18:23 +0000
Re: List of active (used) groups pschleck@panix.com (Paul W. Schleck) - 2026-06-23 13:02 +0000
Re: List of active (used) groups Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2026-06-23 15:12 +0200
Re: List of active (used) groups Thomas Hochstein <thh@thh.name> - 2026-07-05 12:23 +0200
csiph-web