From: Dr Balwinder S Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM@...>
Date: 2005-06-04T23:15:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)

On 06/02/2005 05:34 PM, Nicholas Wieland wrote:
>  - Dr Balwinder S Dheeman :
> 
>>Why not? It is a bit integrated to a _modified_ *Leafnode* 
>>(http://sourceforge.net/projects/leafnode), an NNTP proxy server's local 
>>cache to avoid wastage of bandwidth and also depends on a _modified_ 
>>*newspost* (http://newspost.unixcab.org/) software. I still am working 
>>on improving the code and wanted to release it after removing the said 
>>dependencies. Because, developers of both the above teams have not 
>>merged my code till yet. :(
> 
>  
> Interesting.
> Does it mean that you're fetching stats from your news spool instead of
> using some NNTP ruby lib ?

Yes, I'm fetching stats from my local news spool. I otherwise have also 
developed an NNTP library (http://nntp.rubyforge.org/), but have not 
modified _newsstats_ till yet due to lack to time. OTOH, although I will 
make it work via NNTP, I think (re)using data from a local news spool 
and, or an NNTP server would be better for reasons of performance.

A pre-release, but working version of *newsstats* is available at 
http://newsstats.rubyforge.org/, just opened yesterday :)

Good news is, it is working fine with un-modified versions of Leafnode 
and newspost. I prefer patching newspost at least, patch for the same is 
also available for download at above said site.

Very many cheers!
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