Hi! Wilfred,   
      
   On 09/18/2017 04:33 AM, you wrote:   
      
    WvV> And I learned a new English word: "paucity"...   
    WvV> You're the first.   
      
   I'm happy to be of assistance.  WARNING: you may already realize that English   
   is my first language but you might be surprised to learn that I /failed/ at it   
   as a formal subject in high school.  :)   
      
    PQ>> I used to think that FastEcho did its thing rather well until I saw   
    PQ>> the reports from CrashMail II.  I can send you a copy of this   
    PQ>> afternoon's report as an example, if you're interested...   
      
    WvV> I'm mildly interested. The ftools stat function is probably a remnant   
    WvV> from the time fmail only supported the hudson message base. I never used   
    WvV> it myself.   
      
   Ah, yes.  I had thought the same myself, and that it was designed as a   
   diagnostic tool rather than as an informative one.   
      
   To take a step backwards for a second: you already know bad my C programming   
   skill is.  That's a fact.  I had cause to give the CrashMail sources a cursory   
   look over and saw a possibility of perhaps grafting Johan Billing's statistics   
   analysis code into FMail.  It seemed to be fairly modular.  I looked at one   
   routine that delivered two functions: read stats, or, write stats.  I do not   
   know how it sat in the whole puzzle that is CM II, to deliver a report.   
      
    WvV> Aren't there external utils that can do stats on jam areas?   
      
   Ah, yes.  I've spotted one possibility of Michiel's manufacture, on his   
   website.  I will explore that further, again.   
      
   Thank you for your time, Wilfred.   
      
   Cheers,   
   Paul.   
      
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