Subj : Trialing FMail/lnx - Phase 4
To : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Paul Quinn
Date : Mon Sep 18 2017 08:35 am
Hi! Wilfred,
On 09/18/2017 04:33 AM, you wrote:
WvV> And I learned a new English word: "paucity"...
WvV> You're the first.
I'm happy to be of assistance. WARNING: you may already realize that English
is my first language but you might be surprised to learn that I /failed/ at it
as a formal subject in high school. :)
PQ>> I used to think that FastEcho did its thing rather well until I saw
PQ>> the reports from CrashMail II. I can send you a copy of this
PQ>> afternoon's report as an example, if you're interested...
WvV> I'm mildly interested. The ftools stat function is probably a remnant
WvV> from the time fmail only supported the hudson message base. I never used
WvV> it myself.
Ah, yes. I had thought the same myself, and that it was designed as a
diagnostic tool rather than as an informative one.
To take a step backwards for a second: you already know bad my C programming
skill is. That's a fact. I had cause to give the CrashMail sources a cursory
look over and saw a possibility of perhaps grafting Johan Billing's statistics
analysis code into FMail. It seemed to be fairly modular. I looked at one
routine that delivered two functions: read stats, or, write stats. I do not
know how it sat in the whole puzzle that is CM II, to deliver a report.
WvV> Aren't there external utils that can do stats on jam areas?
Ah, yes. I've spotted one possibility of Michiel's manufacture, on his
website. I will explore that further, again.
Thank you for your time, Wilfred.
Cheers,
Paul.
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