STATNEWS(1)						      Debian GNU/Linux Manual						       STATNEWS(1)

NAME

       statnews - generate some useful statistics out of a newsgroup

SYNOPSIS

       statnews [OPTIONS] NEWSGROUP

DESCRIPTION

       The statnews command get some useful statistics out of a newsgroup.  It displays things like how many articles each author posted, how many
       characters was written, how many lines were quoted, how many articles belong to each thread, the number of messages/characters per day, the
       average message length, and so on.

OPTIONS

       --capitalize(*)
	   Whether to capitalize the name of both the sender and the receiver of each message (default is "--capitalize": yes).  This option is
	   useful to collect "AUTHOR" together with "author", "Author", and "AuThor".

       --dotted(*)
	   Whether to translate "." to "/" in NEWSGROUP (default is "--nodotted": does translate).  This option may be useful if your system
	   stores each newsgroup in a dedicate directory (e.g., news.useless.group) instead that by hierarchy (e.g., news/useless/group), or if
	   your system has a news archive stored this way.

       --from=DATE
	   Set the date statistics start from (DATE format is "dd/mm/yyyy", GMT).

       --help
	   Display the help summary.

       --spooldir=SPOOLDIR
	   Search NEWSGROUP in SPOOLDIR (default is /var/spool/news/articles/).

       --to=DATE
	   Set the date statistics end by (DATE format is "dd/mm/yyyy", GMT).

       --width=WIDTH
	   Set the terminal width to WIDTH columns (default is 80, with a minimum of 70).

       Options may be conveniently abbreviated and prefixed by "-" instead of "--"; the "=" may be omitted or substituted with one or more blanks.

       Options listed with (*) may be negated by adding the prefix "no" in front of them (e.g., "--dotted" => "--nodotted").

RETURN VALUE

       The statnews command returns 0 on success and a positive integer on errors.

ENVIRONMENT

       The environment variable STATNEWS can hold a set of default options for statnews.

       These options are interpreted first by the program and can be overridden by explicit command line parameters.  For example:

       sh: "STATNEWS="--nocapital --width=132"; export STATNEWS"

       csh:
	   "setenv STATNEWS "--nocapital --width=132""

FILES

       The default spool directory is /var/spool/news/articles/.

SEE ALSO

       rn(1), readnews(1).

BUGS

       There are no known bugs.

UNRESTRICTIONS

       This program is copylefted.  Refer to the GNU General Public License for conditions of use.

AUTHOR

       This program has been written and is actively maintained by Davide Giovanni Maria Salvetti <salve@debian.org>.

HISTORY

       This program was originally aimed for use with FidoNet style echo areas under Debian GNU/Linux.	It can be successfully used with Usenet
       newsgroups as well.  More precisely, it can be used with every message base that stores one message per file in some directory in
       traditional mbox format.

Debian Project							    2011-12-25							       STATNEWS(1)