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RHODES UNIVERSITY COMPUTING CENTRE
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P R O V I S I O N A L
Logging of Fidonet Messages
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15 February 1989
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In order to keep track of the costs of mailing via Fidonet, it
is essential to keep some sort of records of what is taking
place. The following log shall be kept:-
Phone call information
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Record identifier
Call Number {start at 1, increment for each call}
Number dialed
Date
Time
Duration (mins)
Efficiency of transmission
Baud rate
Status {successful, aborted(code needed)}
For each message that is sent or received, the following
information shall be recorded:-
Message information
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Record identifier
Call number
Message ID {as used by Fidonet in .MSG filenames?}
Direction {inbound or outbound}
From
To
Size in characters
Example
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Without specifying field sizes at this stage, a possible set of
records might look like this:-
1 0037 0914181234 890215 1915 01 000 2400 AB7
1 0038 0914181234 890215 1921 05 090 2400 OK
2 0038 0328 OUT ccml@rures oberem@engc1.dal.u 000239
2 0038 0329 OUT justin@ruphys jim%mit.edu@relay. 000472
2 0038 0330 IN oberem@engc1. ccml@rures 000109
This shows that call # 37 to 091-418-1234 started at 7:15 pm on
15 Feb 1989, lasted for 1 minute, was totally inefficient, ran
at 2400 bd, and failed with code 7.
A re-transmission started at 7:21 pm that same night. This
lasted 5 minutes, was 90% efficient at 2400 baud, and terminated
correctly. There were two outgoing messages of 239 and 472
bytes, and one incoming message of 109 bytes.
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Extensions/omissions
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Incoming BBS calls.
Incoming calls that transfer mail.
Specifications of field sizes - 'From:' and 'To:' need not be
very long (+- 16 chars?).
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