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statnews(1)


NAME

   statnews - generate some useful statistics out of a newsgroup

SYNOPSIS

   statnews [OPTIONS] NEWSGROUP

DESCRIPTION

   The statnews command get some useful statistics out of a newsgroup.  It
   displays things like how many articles each author posted, how many
   characters was written, how many lines were quoted, how many articles
   belong to each thread, the number of messages/characters per day, the
   average message length, and so on.

OPTIONS

   --capitalize(*)
       Whether to capitalize the name of both the sender and the receiver
       of each message (default is "--capitalize": yes).  This option is
       useful to collect "AUTHOR" together with "author", "Author", and
       "AuThor".

   --dotted(*)
       Whether to translate "." to "/" in NEWSGROUP (default is
       "--nodotted": does translate).  This option may be useful if your
       system stores each newsgroup in a dedicate directory (e.g.,
       news.useless.group) instead that by hierarchy (e.g.,
       news/useless/group), or if your system has a news archive stored
       this way.

   --from=DATE
       Set the date statistics start from (DATE format is "dd/mm/yyyy",
       GMT).

   --help
       Display the help summary.

   --spooldir=SPOOLDIR
       Search NEWSGROUP in SPOOLDIR (default is
       /var/spool/news/articles/).

   --to=DATE
       Set the date statistics end by (DATE format is "dd/mm/yyyy", GMT).

   --width=WIDTH
       Set the terminal width to WIDTH columns (default is 80, with a
       minimum of 70).

   Options may be conveniently abbreviated and prefixed by "-" instead of
   "--"; the "=" may be omitted or substituted with one or more blanks.

   Options listed with (*) may be negated by adding the prefix "no" in
   front of them (e.g., "--dotted" => "--nodotted").

RETURN VALUE

   The statnews command returns 0 on success and a positive integer on
   errors.

ENVIRONMENT

   The environment variable STATNEWS can hold a set of default options for
   statnews.

   These options are interpreted first by the program and can be
   overridden by explicit command line parameters.  For example:

   sh: "STATNEWS="--nocapital --width=132"; export STATNEWS"

   csh:
       "setenv STATNEWS "--nocapital --width=132""

FILES

   The default spool directory is /var/spool/news/articles/.

SEE ALSO

   rn(1), readnews(1).

BUGS

   There are no known bugs.

UNRESTRICTIONS

   This program is copylefted.  Refer to the GNU General Public License
   for conditions of use.

AUTHOR

   This program has been written and is actively maintained by
   Davide Giovanni Maria Salvetti <salve@debian.org>.

HISTORY

   This program was originally aimed for use with FidoNet style echo areas
   under Debian GNU/Linux.  It can be successfully used with Usenet
   newsgroups as well.  More precisely, it can be used with every message
   base that stores one message per file in some directory in traditional
   mbox format.



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