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MeTeR version 1.0
"GT Power Message Traffic Reporter"
Copyright 1991 James R. Porter
INTRODUCTION:
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After each mail run, MeTeR will show you how many messages you received in
each conference, and the total number of messages received by your system.
- - - - - MeTeR v1.0
Here is a sample of the MeTeR output:
Message Traffic Report of incoming EchoMail 5/22/90 4:50
21 GT Power Support 3 BBS Ads
10 Games People Play 0 8086 Assembler
0 Pascal 5 GT BETA
1 GT Developers 5 Doors
0 Let's Role Play 0 GT Companions
1 Science Fiction 0 ANSI/ASCII Art
0 Role Playing Games 0 Weirdness and Ramblings
1 NET 33 SysOps 3 Netmail
Total Messages Received: 47 MeTeR - Copyright 1990 James R. Porter
- - - - - MeTeR v1.0
IMPLEMENTATION:
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MeTeR [GT14/GT15/GT16] [beforemail/aftermail] [filename1] [filename2] [P] ─┐
│ │ │ │ │ │
Program GTversion Mode ┌──────┘ Bulletin filename │
│ (used with Aftermail only) │
│ │
Name of file that contains If present will not
the MESSAGE DISTRIBUTION list areas with a ;
section. in the ROUTING file.
'P' is for Private.
(used with Aftermail only)
(The commandline parameters must be specified in the order given above.)
To determine the number of messages received and in which conferences they
were received you run MeTeR immediately before your MDIST command in the
appropriate batch file(s) (Netmail, Crash, GTCrash, as you like) and run
MeTeR immediately after MDIST.
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EXAMPLE:
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Here is how MeTeR appears in my NETMAIL.BAT file:
mbagger line...
mdriver line...
C:\BBSUTILS\MeTeR GT16 BEFOREMAIL ROUTING.BBS
mdist line...
C:\BBSUTILS\MeTeR GT16 AFTERMAIL ROUTING.BBS C:\BBS\89 P
C:\BBSUTILS\MeTeR GT16 AFTERMAIL ROUTING.BBS C:\BBS\ECHOMAIL
HOW TO EXCLUDE PRIVATE ECHO AREAS
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On the SECOND "MeTeR Aftermail" line listed above, I omitted the 'P' as the
last parameter on the commandline so that the output file would include the
"private" conferences, whereas the first "MeTeR Aftermail" line (ending with
the 'P' for Private, would not include the private message areas (any of
those message areas that you have "semi-coloned out" in the message
distribution section of your routing file)).
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OUTPUT FILENAMES
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
C:\BBSUTILS\MeTeR GT16 AFTERMAIL ROUTING.BBS C:\BBS\89
The MeTeR output will go to the filename you specify on the "MeTeR
Aftermail" commandline (Bulletin #89 in the above case; filenames would be
89 and 89.CBS); so you can specify a different filename for CRASH! mail,
etc., if you like.
If you specify an extension with the bulletin filename it will be ignored.
A .CBS extension will be added for the color file (in keeping with the GT
bulletin filename standards).
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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES:
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The message base descriptions are taken from the Message Distribution
section of the ROUTING.BBS file. All '_' characters are replaced with
spaces before being written to the bulletin/screen. Descriptions are
truncated to 30 characters.
MeTeR creates one 0-byte file in each of your message control directories.
This is how it stores the message numbers (in the filename). These files
have the extension .HMN (High Message Number), and these are deleted each
time MeTeR Before mail is run (*.HMN are deleted); SO, do not have any file
with the extension .HMN in your message control directores or they will be
deleted along with the 0-byte HMN files when MeTeR Before mail is run
(this probably will not affect you at all, but just so you know...).
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Author:
Jim Porter
Leprechaun Heaven
703/271-8644
033/011
Special thanks to BETA testers:
David Newman & Gene Newcomb
The Penal Colony Geno's Place
703-591-8228 415-595-5843
033/014 044/003
I hope you and your callers will find MeTer useful! If you have any trouble,
please send me some netmail, or stop by; Leprechaun Heaven is PC-Pursuitable
through DCWAS.
- - - - - MeTeR v1.0