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    From Carlos Navarro@2:341/234.1 to All on Sat Mar 26 09:32:55 2022
    (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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  • From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to Carlos Navarro on Mon Apr 4 13:21:00 2022
    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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  • From Carlos Navarro@2:341/234 to Björn Felten on Wed Apr 6 21:41:21 2022
    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.

    [snip]
    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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