> I'm also interested in statistics from the LISTSERV manager's point > of view. We are pushing 400 lists on our server with no way to > manage them. I would like to have daily, weekly, and monthly > reports on each list showing number of subscribers, number of posts, > number of bounce messages, and bounces per post. I need to know if > the list owners are doing their job. I'm also interested in reports > on file usage and automatic pruning of archives. > Like a lot of places, we are on a fiscal year budget rolling over on July 1. So every spring I have to submit a request for what I need to spend and a justification for each item in my budget. And every year my boss says the same thing about listserv: how many lists? how many subscribers? how many in the local domain? how many postings to each list? how many bounces on each list? how much cpu did it consume? how much disk and ram? I usually piddle away a day fiddling around with some perl tools I wrote to infer some of these things from the number of postings present in archives, the aggregated output of a QUERY issued for each list and so forth, but it's a lot like looking at tea leaves. He can't believe we are buying a product to manage mailing lists and we can't even guess at the number of subscribers we service and the frequency of their postings. I think he is getting tired of hearing my song-and-dance about "gateways to news" and "distribute" and "nomail" and "no archives to count on those lists" and "sorry, the database functions still don't exist in the unix version". He just wants some consistent metrics, even bad ones. [log in to unmask]