(Sorry for the offtopic)

Can someone explain what those statistics mean? (not the fidoweb concept itself)

I located the first issue where this section appeared (FidoNews 31:46, 17 Nov 2014) but it didn't have any announcement or explanation.

Carlos

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What do "pkt (toss-toss)" and "msg (write-toss)" mean?

Sigh!

I get so disappointed when I see how more and more sysops no longer know how our FTN works.

Well, a short answer to the above is:

When a message is written, it gets a time stamp.

When the message, often together with other messages, is tossed into a pkt file, it gets another time stamp.

When said pkt file is sent to its uplink, the entire package gets yet another time stamp.

Ergo: the two parts of the "Statistics from the Fidoweb" shows how long it takes for a written message to propagate to this node (2:203/0) in the Fidoweb and the underlying delays.


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04 Apr 2022 13:21, you wrote to me:

What do "pkt (toss-toss)" and "msg (write-toss)" mean?

Sigh!

I get so disappointed when I see how more and more sysops no longer know how our FTN works.

Ouch!

Though I still have a lot to learn, I think I have a reasonable knowledge about FTN.

However my English is not very good, so I guess I didn't express myself well in the netmail message that you've quoted above.

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Ergo: the two parts of the "Statistics from the Fidoweb" shows how
long it takes for a written message to propagate to this node
(2:203/0) in the Fidoweb and the underlying delays.

This is what I wanted to know.
(I also found an explanation in the documentation of http://eljaco.se/FILES/DEV/ECHOTIME.ZIP )

I'm curious... Does your tool use the TZUTC kludge from packed messages to calculate the time they took to arrive to your system?

Carlos

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