Daily Usenet report for news.mb-net.net

Sep 12 04:15:01 -- Sep 13 04:15:02

Log entries by program:

Program nameLines%LinesSize%Size
nnrpd 113636 68.2%12.7 MB 60.9%
inn 22164 13.3%3.9 MB 18.7%
innd 21040 12.6%2.7 MB 12.9%
innfeed 8148 4.9%1.3 MB 6.0%
cnfsstat 1440 0.9%300.0 KB 1.4%
nocem 90 0.1%12.1 KB 0.1%
controlchan 2 0.0%0.2 KB 0.0%
TOTAL: 7 166520 100.0%20.9 MB100.0%

History cache:

ReasonCount%Count
Positive hits 162728 63.0%
Negative hits 62612 24.2%
Do not exist 32480 12.6%
Cache misses 542 0.2%
TOTAL: 4 258362 100.0%

INND timer:

Code regionTimePctInvokedMin(ms)Avg(ms)Max(ms)
article cancel00:00:00.006 0.0%20 0.000 0.300 1.000
article cleanup00:00:00.650 0.0%32278 0.006 0.020 0.061
article logging00:00:02.008 0.0%44356 0.025 0.045 0.083
article parse00:00:01.252 0.0%59486 0.010 0.021 0.045
article write00:00:55.064 0.0%20706 0.037 2.659 124.844
artlog/artcncl00:00:00.000 0.0%16 0.000 0.000 0.000
artlog/artparse00:00:00.000 0.0%0 0.000 0.000 0.000
data move00:00:00.520 0.0%286116 0.000 0.002 0.005
hisgrep/artcncl00:00:00.002 0.0%36 0.000 0.056 0.500
hisgrep/perl00:00:00.100 0.0%216 0.000 0.463 1.000
hishave/artcncl00:00:00.000 0.0%16 0.000 0.000 0.000
history grep00:00:00.000 0.0%0 0.000 0.000 0.000
history lookup00:01:08.810 0.0%258850 0.007 0.266 8.804
history sync00:00:00.046 0.0%646 0.000 0.071 0.333
history write00:07:30.782 0.3%32276 0.197 13.966 712.112
idle47:44:49.944 99.4%290920 180.316 590.850 1666.439
nntp read00:00:07.342 0.0%275508 0.017 0.027 0.042
overview write00:01:50.730 0.1%20706 0.483 5.348 210.586
perl filter00:00:49.974 0.0%32276 0.969 1.548 6.210
python filter00:00:00.084 0.0%33096 0.000 0.003 0.016
site send00:00:01.534 0.0%33390 0.019 0.046 0.091
TOTAL: 48:00:43.34847:57:18.848 99.9%----

INNfeed timer:

Code regionTimePctInvokedMin(ms)Avg(ms)Max(ms)
article new00:00:00.474 0.0%13940 0.000 0.034 0.118
article prepare00:00:00.024 0.0%107152 0.000 0.000 0.003
article read00:00:01.066 0.0%13750 0.036 0.078 0.171
backlog stats00:00:01.052 0.0%403312 0.001 0.003 0.006
callbacks00:00:00.000 0.0%0 0.000 0.000 0.000
data read00:00:05.354 0.0%242664 0.015 0.022 0.032
data write00:00:07.874 0.0%231066 0.023 0.034 0.057
idle47:01:59.976 99.9%403312 224.238 419.824 1357.406
status file00:01:19.428 0.0%1204 0.500 65.970 1976.882
TOTAL: 47:03:53.21047:03:35.248100.0%----

nnrpd timer:

Code regionTimePctInvokedMin(ms)Avg(ms)Max(ms)
hisgrep00:00:03.226 0.0%19018 0.000 0.170 20.455
idle494:08:52.688100.0%113642 1.000 15653.8311988597.000
newnews00:00:00.000 0.0%0 0.000 0.000 0.000
nntpwrite00:06:42.548 0.0%4356698 0.000 0.092 29.766
readart00:01:25.200 0.0%7670 0.000 11.108 108.947
TOTAL: 494:17:03.662494:17:03.662100.0%----

Control commands to INND:

CommandNumber
flush 10
flushlogs 4
go 4
logmode 4
lowmark 2
mode 298
name 4
pause 4
paused 4
reload 4
reserve 4
TOTAL: 11 342

Incoming Feeds (INN):

ServerConnectsOfferedTakenRefusedReject%AccptElapsed
1mb-net-out.feeder.erje.net 4 30894 9030 15646 6218 29%96:48:04
2mb-net-out.news.weretis.net 6 34802 4240 28604 1958 12%109:05:32
3feeder.eternal-september.org 4 13198 2630 10556 12 19%52:28:04
4usenet.blueworldhosting.com 1430 18002 1956 13246 2800 10%47:30:42
5mb-net.feeds.news.szaf.org 4 5496 1210 4280 6 22%47:59:34
6localhost 120 820 740 80 0 90%00:02:24
7news.samoylyk.net 4 17848 716 17060 72 4%59:24:46
8news.nntp4.net 2 5486 194 5060 232 3%25:37:32
9feed-out.gegeweb.org 26 2514 128 2386 0 5%46:31:26
10news.quux.org 4 8950 50 8710 190 0%37:58:24
11news.swapon.de 52 894 36 858 0 4%37:11:00
12news.snarked.org 60 9206 16 9190 0 0%57:14:10
13news.nobody.at 2 16076 14 16058 4 0%47:59:56
14news.bbs.nz 2 58672 10 58662 0 0%47:59:52
15news.babsi.de 10 7348 0 7348 0 0%46:15:54
16news.finalfrontier.ch 2 0 0 0 0 0%00:20:02
17news.leine.de 48 894 0 894 0 0%36:33:40
TOTAL: 17 1780 231100 20970 198638 11492 9%797:01:02
Articles received by server

Incoming Volume (INN):

ServerAcceptVolDupVolRejVolTotalVol%AccVol/Art
1mb-net-out.feeder.erje.net46.7 MB0.0 KB14.6 MB61.3 MB 76%4.1 KB
2localhost16.3 MB0.0 KB0.0 KB16.3 MB100%22.6 KB
3mb-net.feeds.news.szaf.org12.3 MB0.0 KB31.5 KB12.3 MB 99%10.4 KB
4mb-net-out.news.weretis.net11.8 MB0.0 KB24.8 MB36.5 MB 32%6.0 KB
5feeder.eternal-september.org8.1 MB0.0 KB122.0 KB8.2 MB 98%3.2 KB
6news.samoylyk.net5.9 MB0.0 KB761.3 KB6.7 MB 88%8.7 KB
7usenet.blueworldhosting.com4.4 MB1.2 KB39.2 MB43.7 MB 10%9.4 KB
8news.nntp4.net962.8 KB0.0 KB5.1 MB6.1 MB 15%14.6 KB
9feed-out.gegeweb.org446.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB446.0 KB100%3.5 KB
10news.quux.org207.1 KB0.0 KB2.2 MB2.4 MB 8%10.2 KB
11news.snarked.org118.8 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB118.8 KB100%7.4 KB
12news.swapon.de102.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB102.0 KB100%2.8 KB
13news.nobody.at22.3 KB0.0 KB22.2 KB44.5 KB 50%2.5 KB
14news.bbs.nz15.8 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB15.8 KB100%1.6 KB
15news.babsi.de0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB 0%0
16news.finalfrontier.ch0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB 0%0
17news.leine.de0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB 0%0
TOTAL: 17107.3 MB1.2 KB86.9 MB194.2 MB 55%6.1 KB
Incoming Volume received by server

Incoming articles:

DateArticles%ArtsArt/secSize%SizeKB/sec
Sep 12 04:15:01 - 04:59:59 187 1.8% 0.07515.3 KB 0.9% 0.19
Sep 12 05:00:00 - 05:59:59 248 2.4% 0.07828.5 KB 1.5% 0.23
Sep 12 06:00:00 - 06:59:59 202 2.0% 0.06415.9 KB 0.8% 0.12
Sep 12 07:00:00 - 07:59:59 320 3.1% 0.092.1 MB 3.9% 0.59
Sep 12 08:00:00 - 08:59:59 375 3.6% 0.101.8 MB 3.4% 0.52
Sep 12 09:00:00 - 09:59:59 510 4.9% 0.144.7 MB 8.9% 1.35
Sep 12 10:00:00 - 10:59:59 463 4.5% 0.135.5 MB 10.3% 1.56
Sep 12 11:00:00 - 11:59:59 677 6.5% 0.198.5 MB 15.9% 2.41
Sep 12 12:00:00 - 12:59:59 578 5.6% 0.163.6 MB 6.7% 1.02
Sep 12 13:00:00 - 13:59:59 508 4.9% 0.141.9 MB 3.6% 0.55
Sep 12 14:00:00 - 14:59:59 462 4.5% 0.131.9 MB 3.5% 0.53
Sep 12 15:00:00 - 15:59:59 509 4.9% 0.142.1 MB 3.9% 0.60
Sep 12 16:00:00 - 16:59:59 539 5.2% 0.151.8 MB 3.3% 0.50
Sep 12 17:00:00 - 17:59:59 567 5.5% 0.162.3 MB 4.3% 0.65
Sep 12 18:00:00 - 18:59:59 532 5.1% 0.151.8 MB 3.4% 0.52
Sep 12 19:00:00 - 19:59:59 521 5.0% 0.141.9 MB 3.5% 0.53
Sep 12 20:00:00 - 20:59:59 500 4.8% 0.141.9 MB 3.5% 0.53
Sep 12 21:00:00 - 21:59:59 453 4.4% 0.132.1 MB 3.9% 0.59
Sep 12 22:00:00 - 22:59:59 526 5.1% 0.152.8 MB 5.3% 0.80
Sep 12 23:00:00 - 23:59:59 465 4.5% 0.131.8 MB 3.4% 0.52
Sep 13 00:00:00 - 00:59:59 346 3.3% 0.10934.2 KB 1.7% 0.26
Sep 13 01:00:00 - 01:59:59 284 2.7% 0.08791.6 KB 1.4% 0.22
Sep 13 02:00:00 - 02:59:59 254 2.5% 0.07645.2 KB 1.2% 0.18
Sep 13 03:00:00 - 03:59:59 253 2.4% 0.07819.3 KB 1.5% 0.23
Sep 13 04:00:00 - 04:15:02 66 0.6% 0.07139.8 KB 0.3% 0.16
TOTAL: 24:00:01 10345 100.0% 0.1253.4 MB 100.0% 0.63
Incoming articles
Incoming articles (size)

CNFS buffer status:

BufferClassSizeUsed%UsedCyclesKB/secDays
BIN1BINARY4.0 GB128.2 MB 3.1% 0 0.02 2844.44
DE01DE16.0 GB2.6 GB 16.0% 0 0.12 1653.24
INT01INTL16.0 GB9.2 GB 57.4% 1 1.15 168.87
INT02INTL16.0 GB532.5 KB 0.0% 0 0.00 0.00
JUNK1JUNK4.0 GB199.3 MB 4.9% 4 1.35 36.05
TOTAL: 5-56.0 GB12.1 GB 21.5% 5 0.95-

Sites sending bad articles:

ServerTotalGroupDistDuplicUnappTooOldSiteLineOther
1mb-net-out.feeder.erje.net 7420 4323 0 0 0 0 0 0 3097
2usenet.blueworldhosting.com 2092 692 0 1 0 0 0 0 1399
3mb-net-out.news.weretis.net 1750 767 0 0 0 0 0 0 983
4news.nntp4.net 306 157 0 0 0 0 0 0 149
5news.quux.org 158 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 153
6feeder.eternal-september.org 36 31 0 0 0 0 0 0 5
7news.samoylyk.net 34 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 34
8mb-net.feeds.news.szaf.org 7 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
9news.nobody.at 6 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
10news.snarked.org 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11feed-out.gegeweb.org 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL: 11 11811 5985 0 1 0 0 0 0 5825

Unwanted newsgroups [Top 20]:

NewsgroupCount
alt.binaries.test 2830
free.usenet 1419
alt.binaries.ftd 433
alt.binaries.misc 288
alt.test.ping 288
free.pt 211
linux.kernel.netdev 119
alt.test.a 60
lada.talk 30
alt.binaries.nospam.female.bodyhair.pubes 24
hispagatos.hacking.ransomware 21
dk.politik 21
cn.comp 20
alt.binaries.pictures.wallpaper 18
finet.binaries.keskustelu 14
linux.kernel.git 12
alt.support.depression.crisis 11
aus.cars 10
alt.binaries.pictures.nylons 9
aus.politics 8
TOTAL: 82 5985

INND Perl filter [Top 20]:

ReasonCount
EMP (phl) 5658
EMP (fsl) 5182
Binary in non-binary group 290
Too many newsgroups 170
EMP (md5) 152
Spam (xxx.com) 14
Scoring filter (8) 14
Cancel of <117v6hm$1luj$1@solani.org> without Cancel-Key 4
Cancel of <117v681$1ll1$1@solani.org> without Cancel-Key 4
Cancel of <117umn6$25n0g$1@dont-email.me> without Cancel-Key 4
Cancel of <117v61e$1lgt$1@solani.org> without Cancel-Key 4
Cancel of <117ucoo$9btb$1@solani.org> without Cancel-Key 4
Cancel of <117uml0$19t5$1@solani.org> without Cancel-Key 4
Cancel of <117v5s4$1laf$1@solani.org> without Cancel-Key 4
Supersedes of non-existing ID <de-newusers-infos/einleitung/20260912-1@msgid.krell.zikzak.de> 2
Cancel of non-existing ID <1182s8n$f7t$3@news.kraft-s.ru> 2
Supersedes of non-existing ID <HELP.it.discussioni.astrologia.20677@id.news.nic.it> 2
Cancel of non-existing ID <vsu6uc$739n$1@news.tcpreset.net> 2
Supersedes of non-existing ID <HELP.it.istruzione.universita.20677@id.news.nic.it> 2
Supersedes of non-existing ID <HELP.it.comp.os.freebsd.20677@id.news.nic.it> 2
TOTAL: 42 11564

NoCeM on Spool:

IdGoodBadUniqueTotal
nocem@eternal-september.org (misplaced_binary)0600
robot@pasdenom.info (spam2)00012
robot@pasdenom.info (spam4)00010
robot@pasdenom.info (spam)05800
robot@pasdenom.info (spam3)00014
TOTAL: 5064036

Miscellaneous innd statistics [Top 10]:

EventServerNumber
Bad Message-ID's offered
localhost 10
TOTAL: 1 10
Including strange strings
mb-net-out.news.weretis.net 35
mb-net-out.feeder.erje.net 8
TOTAL: 2 43
TOTAL: 2 53

Outgoing Feeds (innfeed) by Articles:

ServerOfferedTakenRefusedRejectMissSpool%TookElapsed
1news.babsi.de 13670 7384 0 6284 0 352 54%47:43:28
2roellig-ltd.de 14354 4328 8208 0 0 0 30%47:41:44
3nntp4.net 16158 2852 9080 204 0 0 17%47:49:52
4gegeweb.org 4730 1182 2456 8 0 0 24%47:12:38
5nobody.at 16212 1122 10754 558 0 0 6%47:50:54
6news.snarked.org 20930 494 11768 182 0 8 2%47:45:20
7szaf.org 5288 486 4022 0 0 0 9%47:39:52
8eternal-september.org 16484 438 9288 88 0 0 2%47:36:14
9feeder.erje.net 10746 360 9878 54 0 2 3%47:51:32
10agency-nz 23156 104 11916 516 0 0 0%47:48:28
11weretis.net 10688 64 8534 28 0 0 0%47:44:32
12quux.org 20730 64 12252 44 0 0 0%47:47:38
13samoylyk.net 17424 54 11688 42 0 2 0%47:53:40
14blueworldhosting.com 16874 50 9616 4 0 0 0%47:36:38
15news.leine.de 1272 32 894 0 0 0 2%36:59:12
16news.swapon.de 1496 32 1238 0 0 0 2%42:37:12
17finalfrontier.ch 2 2 0 0 0 0100%00:40:00
18jubileedata.com 0 0 0 0 0 12530 0%47:40:00
19srv.newsdeef.eu 0 0 0 0 0 12564 0%47:40:02
20srl.newsdeef.eu 0 0 0 0 0 12564 0%47:40:02
21mind.de 0 0 0 0 0 12530 0%47:40:00
TOTAL: 21 210214 19048 121592 8012 0 50552 9%938:58:58
Outgoing feeds (innfeed) by Articles

Outgoing Feeds (innfeed) by Volume:

ServerAcceptVolRejectVolTotalVolVolume/secVol/ArtElapsed
1news.babsi.de18.1 MB29.1 MB47.2 MB0.3 KB/s3.5 KB47:43:28
2roellig-ltd.de17.3 MB0.0 KB17.3 MB0.1 KB/s4.1 KB47:41:44
3nntp4.net11.2 MB154.1 KB11.3 MB0.1 KB/s3.8 KB47:49:52
4gegeweb.org6.2 MB35.7 KB6.3 MB0.0 KB/s5.4 KB47:12:38
5nobody.at4.1 MB3.1 MB7.3 MB0.0 KB/s4.4 KB47:50:54
6news.snarked.org3.3 MB351.2 KB3.6 MB0.0 KB/s5.5 KB47:45:20
7feeder.erje.net1.8 MB217.9 KB2.1 MB0.0 KB/s5.1 KB47:51:32
8szaf.org1.2 MB0.0 KB1.2 MB0.0 KB/s2.6 KB47:39:52
9eternal-september.org951.6 KB193.8 KB1.1 MB0.0 KB/s2.2 KB47:36:14
10weretis.net358.6 KB22.5 KB381.1 KB0.0 KB/s4.1 KB47:44:32
11quux.org353.6 KB254.7 KB608.3 KB0.0 KB/s5.6 KB47:47:38
12agency-nz352.5 KB3.0 MB3.3 MB0.0 KB/s5.5 KB47:48:28
13blueworldhosting.com182.4 KB40.4 KB222.8 KB0.0 KB/s4.1 KB47:36:38
14samoylyk.net159.9 KB32.8 KB192.7 KB0.0 KB/s2.0 KB47:53:40
15news.leine.de79.3 KB0.0 KB79.3 KB0.0 KB/s2.5 KB36:59:12
16news.swapon.de79.3 KB0.0 KB79.3 KB0.0 KB/s2.5 KB42:37:12
17finalfrontier.ch6.6 KB0.0 KB6.6 KB0.0 KB/s3.3 KB00:40:00
18jubileedata.com0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s047:40:00
19srv.newsdeef.eu0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s047:40:02
20srl.newsdeef.eu0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s047:40:02
21mind.de0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s047:40:00
TOTAL: 2165.7 MB36.5 MB102.2 MB0.0 KB/s3.9 KB938:58:58
Outgoing feeds (innfeed) by Volume

NNRP no permission clients [Top 20]:

SystemConn
dynamic-176-007-183-103.176.7.pool.telefonica.de 14
2a02:ab8:201:5b0::1 12
TOTAL: 2 26

NNRP gethostbyaddr failures [Top 20]:

SystemConn
? (can't getpeername) 28
TOTAL: 1 28

NNRP unrecognized commands (by host) [Top 20]:

SystemConn
guernsey.scan.bufferover.run 10
64.195.132.66.censys-scanner.com 2
p57ba5837.dip0.t-ipconnect.de 2
TOTAL: 3 14

NNRP unrecognized commands (by command) [Top 20]:

CommandCount
Host: 193.22.253.13:563 2
Accept: */* 2
EHLO www.censys.io 2
GET / HTTP/1.1 2
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Inte... 2
Accept-Encoding: gzip 2
XFEATURE COMPRESS GZIP TERMINATOR 2
TOTAL: 7 14

NNRP client timeouts [Top 20]:

SystemConnPeer
p200301072f0b660039c0710c3a948e60.dip0.t-ipconnect.de 74 74
p579a67be.dip0.t-ipconnect.de 18 18
p200300fa8f252d00dabbc1fffe0ef4bb.dip0.t-ipconnect.de 16 16
p200300e84f4291004492d349f7e1f9dc.dip0.t-ipconnect.de 12 0
dynamic-2a02-3100-8a14-4500-9151-6d46-5940-7a93.310.pool.telefonica.de 12 0
dynamic-176-007-183-103.176.7.pool.telefonica.de 10 0
ip5f5a942e.dynamic.kabel-deutschland.de 10 10
p54babf94.dip0.t-ipconnect.de 8 8
dynamic-2a02-3100-89c6-0200-457e-4bd0-36d8-b913.310.pool.telefonica.de 6 0
2001:9e8:d98a:ee00:8156:a44a:1135:8680 4 0
dynamic-2a02-3100-89c7-f800-c55b-7734-701d-4be0.310.pool.telefonica.de 4 0
2a02:1210:1644:ea00:7dac:712:3ace:286d 4 0
ipb218354f.dynamic.kabel-deutschland.de 2 0
p57ba5837.dip0.t-ipconnect.de 2 2
p20030006519c58fbd5d8c4661ac2b33c.dip0.t-ipconnect.de 2 0
2a02:ab8:201:5b0::1 2 0
dynamic-2a02-3100-886a-4900-c55b-7734-701d-4be0.310.pool.telefonica.de 2 0
guernsey.scan.bufferover.run 2 2
TOTAL: 18 190 156

Newsgroup request counts (by hierarchy):

HierarchyCountPct
1de 4406 66.8%
2comp 1172 17.8%
3ger 548 8.3%
4linux 264 4.0%
5news 116 1.8%
6eternal-september 44 0.7%
7sci 26 0.4%
8gmane 16 0.2%
9alt 4 0.1%
TOTAL: 9 6596100.0%

Newsgroup request counts (by newsgroup) [Top 100]:

NewsgroupCount
1de.sci.electronics 1608
2comp.lang.lisp 1012
3ger.ct 548
4de.etc.sprache.deutsch 372
5de.etc.fahrzeug.auto 348
6de.rec.fahrrad 344
7de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware 272
8de.talk.tagesgeschehen 174
9de.sci.ing.elektrotechnik 170
10de.talk.jokes 160
11news.lists.filters 112
12linux.debian.user 104
13de.soc.politik.misc 100
14de.etc.haushalt 94
15de.soc.recht.misc 94
16de.rec.luftfahrt 88
17comp.os.linux.misc 88
18de.soc.umwelt 80
19linux.debian.devel.release 76
20linux.debian.devel 68
21de.comm.software.mozilla.browser 64
22de.rec.garten 54
23de.alt.fan.aldi 50
24comp.mobile.android 40
25de.comm.software.mozilla.mailnews 34
26comp.lang.c 32
27de.alt.comm.android 32
28eternal-september.talk 32
29de.etc.sprache.misc 26
30de.comp.hardware.misc 26
31sci.physics.relativity 24
32de.soc.arbeitslos 24
33de.sci.physik 22
34de.rec.mampf 18
35de.etc.post 16
36de.comp.software.misc 14
37de.etc.bahn.misc 12
38gmane.linux.debian.user 12
39eternal-september.support 12
40de.alt.netdigest 12
41linux.debian.announce.security 12
42de.rec.heimwerken 10
43de.comm.abuse 10
44de.rec.tv.technik 8
45de.soc.recht.strassenverkehr 8
46de.sci.informatik.ki 6
47de.sci.raumfahrt 6
48de.test 6
49alt.html 4
50de.etc.bahn.tarif+service 4
51de.comm.software.mozilla.nightly-builds 4
52de.sci.mathematik 4
53de.soc.recht.wohnen 4
54de.comm.technik.misc 4
55gmane.linux.debian.user.announce 4
56de.comp.office-pakete.staroffice.misc 4
57news.software.readers 4
58linux.debian.announce 4
59de.etc.handel.auktionshaeuser 2
60de.etc.misc 2
61de.alt.arnooo 2
62de.etc.bahn.bahnpolitik 2
63de.rec.musik.rock+pop 2
64de.rec.tv.serien 2
65de.alt.folklore.computer 2
66de.alt.folklore.ddr 2
67sci.astro 2
68de.rec.sport.misc 2
69de.rec.film.misc 2
TOTAL: 69 6596
innreport from INN 2.7.3 based on initial work (©) 1996-2001 by Fabien Tassin <fta@sofaraway.org> and enhanced by several contributors since then
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