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Date:      Fri, 18 Apr 1997 12:12:44 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        imp@village.org (Warner Losh)
Cc:        jmb@freefall.freebsd.org, jlemon@americantv.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mail exploders...
Message-ID:  <199704180242.MAA21010@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <E0wHxd2-00049E-00@rover.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Apr 17, 97 02:17:59 pm"

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Warner Losh stands accused of saying:
> In message <199704171634.JAA19155@freefall.freebsd.org> "Jonathan M. Bresler" writes:
> :  49100 messages delayed   0 minutes
> :   3863 messages delayed   1 minutes
> :    214 messages delayed   2 minutes
> ...
> :      1 messages delayed 1241 minutes
> :      1 messages delayed 1281 minutes
> :      1 messages delayed 1321 minutes
> :      1 messages delayed 1352 minutes
> : 
> : hmm.....i really should re-write this script to use a log scale for delay ;)
> 
> Looks like a good  use for Log Log display.
> 
> While I don't know if a program can "lovingly render" this into ASCII
> graphics, it might no tbe such a bad idea to put together a plot
> pipeline that will send you a graph.  When things are on the left of
> the graph, then you know life is good.  When they start to move to the
> right, you know bad things are happening.

gnuplot will do a pretty good job of it.

> Warner
> 
> 
> 


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