Thank you for all of this Charles. I'm just about to get started on it.



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> From: LISTSERV List Owners' Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On

> Behalf Of Charles Clausen

> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2017 3:38 PM

> To: [log in to unmask]

> Subject: Re: [LSTOWN-L] list report

> 

> This explains what I was experiencing.

> 

> Though the log files for previous compilation periods are no longer available for reporting

> via the web interface, they can still be retrieved by email command. This just now got me

> our file for year 2016:

> 

> GET PROSTATE CHANGELOG-2016

> 

> The online keyword description for this states:

> 

> "Rotated logs are renamed to listname.CHANGELOG-yyyy[mm[dd|w]] and can be retrieved

> as usual with the GET command.”

> 

> Charles

> 

> 

> > On Jan 26, 2017, at 11:41 AM, Liam Kelly <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> >

> > The list activity report from the web interface does use the list changelog file, and the

> changelog file is only present if enabled in the list configuration. (It is not enabled by

> default.) It does include POST records in addition to ADD/SUB/DEL, etc.

> >

> > There is also a system-wide changelog that can be enabled by the site administrator. It

> only counts message distribution (MAIL/MAIL-MERGE), but does so for all lists.

> >

> > Neither the list-level nor site-wide changelog is retroactive. I.e., if you enable it today,

> you don’t get access to stats from last month.

> >

> > In general, I use Change-Log=Yes, rather than Change-Log=Yearly or any other interval.

> It’s a plain text file, and unless you have millions of ADD/DELETE command yearly, the

> file is unlikely to get very large very quickly. Once the log is rotated, it is no longer

> available for reporting via the web interface.

> > --

> > Liam Kelly

> > Senior Consulting Analyst

> > L-Soft international

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