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- "Generix" - The Tabby Import/Export Report System
-
- (C) 1992 Currents! Technologies - All Rights Reserved
-
-
- Generix creates reports containing information about the flow
- of echomail to and from your BBS. This information can be
- used in a number of ways: 1) find out exactly how many
- messages are being delivered to your system, 2) find out
- in what echo areas and how many messages your users are
- contributing, 3) determine the relative activity of an echo
- area, 4) track the number of processing sessions occuring
- on any given day of the week.
-
- Generix - Components
- .................................
-
- The Generix system contains two small Tabby-aware modules;
- Generix Import and Generix Export. As you can imagine, the
- Generix Import module gathers information from Tabby's
- "Generic Import" file and the Generix Export module gathers
- information from Tabby's "Generic Export" file. All of the
- resultant files and the Generix data files area written and stored
- in a folder named "Generix Files."
-
- Generix - Setup
- ........................
-
- 1> Copy both Generix modules and the "Generix Files" folder into
- the same folder containing TabbyNet.
-
- 2> Edit ALL of your event modules (in Tabby Maint, in TabbyNet's
- STR 500, and any other utility which processes your Tabby events)
- to include both of the Generix modules' names. You can rename the
- Generix modules if you wish.
-
- - Put the Generix Import module in your event lists right after
- Tabby's "DeliverMail" module.
- - Put the Generix Export module n your event lists right before
- Tabby's "SendNews" module.
-
- NOTE: You will not get an accurate count if you do not
- run the Generix system during each processing
- period. It is important to add the Generix modules
- to each of your Tabby events, inlcluding Crashmail.
-
- NOTE NOTE: You do not need to run both Generix modules
- if you only wish to track either messages
- imported or exported from your BBS. But
- for an accurate understanding of your echomail
- and netmail traffic you should run both.
-
- Generix - Operation
- .............................
-
- Generix reads the appropriate Generic Import/Export file when it is
- launched during a Tabby event. It processes information and then
- writes its reports into the Generix Files folder.
-
- Generix - Reports
- ...........................
-
- Generix creates three reports - Session, Daily, and Weekly Report.
- The Session Report tells you how many messages were processed
- during each Tabby event session - normal mail hour and crash mail
- sessions. The Daily Report gives you cumulative data for each
- day of the week for an entire week. The Daily Report and the
- datafiles are reset during the first processing session each Sunday.
- The Weekly Report is also created during the first processing session
- on Sunday. It contains the total messages processed for the previous
- week. The Weekly Report's filename ends with the date and is saved
- from week to week.
-
- A log is also kept of the modules' operations which contain basic info
- which may be used to perform troubleshooting if necessary.
-
- Generix - Notes
- ........................
-
- To manually reset the Generix system, throw away all of the data
- files and reports (or move them out of the Generix Files folder). It
- should not be necessary to do this, but you can if you wish.
-
- Generix - Future
- ........................
-
- Upcoming additions to the Generix system will be the inclusion
- of a Monthly Report and tracking by username the number of
- messages entered by your users. Also planned is the tracking of
- message activity from those who Point off your BBS.
-
- Generix - The Terms of Use
- .........................................
-
- Generix is SHAREWARE. If you intend to use Generix for more
- than a 14 day trial period, please send $15 to:
-
- Currents! Technologies!
- 1120 Creighton Avenue
- Dayton, OH 45420-1928
-
- Thanks!
-
- -- Randy Brown