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What is the format of the data returned by the SHOW CTR command.
James
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Subject: Re: Suggestion
Author: Eric Thomas <[log in to unmask]> at SMTP
Date: 4/3/96 6:14 PM
On Wed, 3 Apr 1996 09:35:19 EST David Avery <[log in to unmask]>
said:
>And every year my boss says the same thing about listserv: how many
>lists? how many subscribers?
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> list sum listserv.dartmouth.edu
List membership summary for selected servers known to
LISTSERV@SEARN on 3 Apr 1996 18:14:41
Number of lists Membership count
Nodeid Public Total Public Total
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LISTSERV.DARTMOUTH.EDU 39 68 18359 22072
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>how many in the local domain?
Here you do have to write your own program. Typically managers will ask
how many are in this and that department and it is not a straightforward
issue that the product can anticipate easily.
>how many postings to each list? how many bounces on each list?
Per-list statistics will be available in a future version. Note that they
aren't available on VM either, except for the STATS command that reports
the total number of postings since the creation of the list, which is
only very moderately useful.
>how much cpu did it consume? how much disk and ram?
THAT is something your operating system should tell you. I mean, you
wouldn't ask your users to tell you how much CPU they've consumed so you
can bill them, would you? :-)
>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.
You have 68 lists totalling 22,072 subscribers. The server keeps global
usage statistics, you can retrieve raw numbers using the SHOW CTR command
and process them into a report, or you can use a report generator someone
else wrote:
Total Daily average
Postings to mailing lists: 11390 379.66
Recipients: 3064711 102157.03
Digests issued: 941 31.38
Recipients: 321924 10730.80
Indexes issued: 0 0.00
Recipients: 0 0.00
DISTRIBUTE jobs processed: 29241 974.69
Internally generated: 28724 957.46
Outbound DISTRIBUTE jobs: 70148 2338.27
Outbound NJE files: 517 17.23
Outbound files to MAILER: 120119 4003.97
In non-BSMTP format: 69576 2319.19
Recipients: 3034547 101151.57
379.66/68 = 5.58 posting per day on the average.
You'll probably ask why LISTSERV doesn't include a quality report
generator to convince management to spend more money on the product, and
you'll be right. It would be more profitable for L-Soft to have postponed
the delivery of the file server functions for non-VM systems, and have
spent the time developing a state of the art reporting system giving
managers all the metrics they need to send more money our way. If enough
people feel this way, I am willing to freeze further development until we
have the necessary reporting tools in place. If this is what our
customers want, we will do it.
Eric
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