Daily Usenet Report

Nov 19 00:01:02 -- Nov 20 00:01:01

Unknown entries from news log file:

First 2 / 2 lines (100.0%)

Nov 19 08:13:21 newsfeed innd: message repeated 2 times: [ ctlinnd command s]
Nov 20 00:00:01 newsfeed nnrpd[398604]: localhost auth: program exited with status 8

Log entries by program:

Program nameLines%LinesSize%Size
nnrpd 13941 33.0%1.9 MB 21.1%
inn 13913 33.0%4.5 MB 51.2%
innd 9037 21.4%1.3 MB 14.7%
innfeed 4440 10.5%886.7 KB 9.9%
nocem 433 1.0%213.1 KB 2.4%
cnfsstat 432 1.0%70.6 KB 0.8%
controlchan 1 0.0%0.1 KB 0.0%
TOTAL: 7 42197 100.0%8.8 MB100.0%

History cache:

ReasonCount%Count
Positive hits 138619 65.4%
Negative hits 62635 29.6%
Do not exist 10378 4.9%
Cache misses 304 0.1%
TOTAL: 4 211936 100.0%

INND timer:

Code regionTimePctInvokedMin(ms)Avg(ms)Max(ms)
article cancel00:00:03.112 0.0%4388 0.000 0.709 10.000
article cleanup00:00:00.153 0.0%10376 0.000 0.015 0.225
article logging00:00:00.521 0.0%10426 0.000 0.050 0.432
article parse00:00:00.265 0.0%15053 0.000 0.018 0.117
article write00:00:02.528 0.0%8337 0.000 0.303 5.286
artlog/artcncl00:00:00.090 0.0%3491 0.000 0.026 0.500
artlog/artparse00:00:00.000 0.0%0 0.000 0.000 0.000
data move00:00:01.302 0.0%212332 0.000 0.006 0.143
hisgrep/artcncl00:00:01.746 0.0%4287 0.000 0.407 7.000
hishave/artcncl00:00:00.524 0.0%4371 0.000 0.120 2.667
hishave/artparse00:00:00.000 0.0%0 0.000 0.000 0.000
history grep00:00:00.000 0.0%0 0.000 0.000 0.000
history lookup00:02:39.275 0.2%209671 0.107 0.760 5.356
history sync00:00:00.064 0.0%397 0.000 0.161 1.000
history write00:02:06.354 0.1%10374 2.895 12.180 120.634
hiswrite/artcncl00:00:00.286 0.0%105 2.557 2.724 5.333
hiswrite/artparse00:00:00.000 0.0%0 0.000 0.000 0.000
idle23:50:17.915 99.3%210306 67.401 408.062 1728.790
nntp read00:00:07.542 0.0%212996 0.003 0.035 0.988
overview write00:03:59.095 0.3%8337 0.612 28.679 1405.725
perl filter00:00:41.010 0.0%10374 1.433 3.953 62.932
python filter00:00:02.945 0.0%10374 0.000 0.284 9.541
site send00:00:01.440 0.0%16905 0.000 0.085 0.275
TOTAL: 24:01:05.26724:00:06.167 99.9%----

INNfeed timer:

Code regionTimePctInvokedMin(ms)Avg(ms)Max(ms)
article new00:00:00.028 0.0%8795 0.000 0.003 0.050
article prepare00:00:00.007 0.0%68620 0.000 0.000 0.007
article read00:00:00.816 0.0%5452 0.000 0.150 2.311
backlog stats00:00:00.523 0.0%329447 0.000 0.002 0.007
callbacks00:00:00.000 0.0%0 0.000 0.000 0.000
data read00:00:03.065 0.0%221373 0.005 0.014 0.043
data write00:00:03.840 0.0%216366 0.009 0.018 0.033
idle23:58:39.631100.0%329447 103.170 262.014 1556.847
status file00:00:00.491 0.0%392 0.750 1.253 31.000
TOTAL: 23:59:02.15323:58:48.401100.0%----

nnrpd timer:

Code regionTimePctInvokedMin(ms)Avg(ms)Max(ms)
idle00:23:50.392 65.8%8330 0.000 171.716 10952.000
newnews00:00:00.000 0.0%0 0.000 0.000 0.000
nntpwrite00:00:04.545 0.2%95444 0.000 0.048 1.000
TOTAL: 00:36:12.61300:23:54.937 66.0%----

Control commands to INND:

CommandNumber
flush 5
flushlogs 2
go 2
logmode 2
lowmark 1
mode 97
name 2
pause 2
paused 2
reload 2
reserve 2
TOTAL: 11 119

Incoming Feeds (INN):

ServerConnectsOfferedTakenRefusedReject%AccptElapsed
1endofthelinebbs-out.news.weretis.net 4 16390 2066 13902 422 12%49:31:24
2glockenspiel.complete.org 2 6702 1474 5223 5 21%23:52:48
3usenet.blueworldhosting.com 717 10178 1258 8043 877 12%23:53:27
4usenet.goja.nl.eu.org 11 9178 665 8367 146 7%24:06:36
5usenet.network 1 6550 407 6140 3 6%23:59:57
6nntp.comgw.net 2 9388 401 8859 128 4%23:59:41
7newsfeed.bofh.team 2 10021 373 9556 92 3%23:59:47
8i2pn.org 1 8195 331 7758 106 4%23:59:53
9news.corradoroberto.it 6 1254 307 947 0 24%25:29:45
10194.87.241.33 43 362 226 135 1 62%17:05:47
11newsfeed.xs3.de 2 7426 213 7168 45 2%23:58:15
12news.nntp4.net 1 7654 167 7462 25 2%23:59:54
13endofthelinebbs.peers.news.panix.com 24 8947 146 8723 78 1%24:03:42
14endoftheline-out.news.chmurka.net 1 4028 146 3882 0 3%21:00:03
15news.samoylyk.net 2 7754 135 7609 10 1%23:58:34
16news.bbs.nz 2 7714 45 7667 2 0%23:59:02
17news.furie.org.uk 2 3866 44 3818 4 1%23:58:03
18news.netfront.net 1 7082 40 6985 57 0%22:34:57
19news.hispagatos.org 6 9327 28 9276 23 0%24:26:24
20outgoing.news.lysator.liu.se 2 4930 1 4928 1 0%23:58:49
21eotl-out.news.tnetconsulting.net 1 0 0 0 0 0%00:10:04
22localhost 27 0 0 0 0 0%00:00:00
23news.nk.ca 2 0 0 0 0 0%00:20:12
TOTAL: 23 862 146946 8473 136448 2025 5%496:27:04
Articles received by server

Incoming Volume (INN):

ServerAcceptVolDupVolRejVolTotalVol%AccVol/Art
1endofthelinebbs-out.news.weretis.net6.3 MB0.0 KB765.3 KB7.0 MB 89%2.9 KB
2glockenspiel.complete.org5.4 MB0.0 KB3.4 KB5.4 MB 99%3.8 KB
3usenet.network4.3 MB0.0 KB5.1 KB4.3 MB 99%10.7 KB
4usenet.blueworldhosting.com2.6 MB0.0 KB1.7 MB4.3 MB 59%2.1 KB
5news.corradoroberto.it2.2 MB0.0 KB0.0 KB2.2 MB100%7.5 KB
6usenet.goja.nl.eu.org1.6 MB0.0 KB234.0 KB1.8 MB 87%2.3 KB
7i2pn.org1.3 MB0.0 KB148.1 KB1.4 MB 89%3.3 KB
8nntp.comgw.net1.3 MB0.0 KB344.4 KB1.6 MB 78%3.1 KB
9newsfeed.bofh.team899.4 KB0.0 KB111.6 KB1011.0 KB 88%2.2 KB
10194.87.241.33640.5 KB2.2 KB0.0 KB642.7 KB 99%2.8 KB
11news.samoylyk.net568.1 KB0.0 KB8.9 KB577.0 KB 98%4.0 KB
12newsfeed.xs3.de493.5 KB2.3 KB158.4 KB654.1 KB 75%2.5 KB
13endoftheline-out.news.chmurka.net457.2 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB457.2 KB100%3.1 KB
14news.nntp4.net408.6 KB0.0 KB90.3 KB499.0 KB 81%2.6 KB
15endofthelinebbs.peers.news.panix.com336.3 KB0.0 KB85.8 KB422.1 KB 79%1.9 KB
16news.furie.org.uk210.0 KB0.0 KB6.5 KB216.5 KB 97%4.5 KB
17news.bbs.nz119.3 KB0.0 KB4.2 KB123.5 KB 96%2.6 KB
18news.netfront.net84.4 KB0.0 KB997.8 KB1.1 MB 7%11.2 KB
19news.hispagatos.org80.4 KB0.0 KB34.1 KB114.5 KB 70%2.2 KB
20outgoing.news.lysator.liu.se3.0 KB0.0 KB1.0 KB4.0 KB 75%2.0 KB
21eotl-out.news.tnetconsulting.net0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB 0%0
22localhost0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB 0%0
23news.nk.ca0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB 0%0
TOTAL: 2329.1 MB4.5 KB4.7 MB33.8 MB 86%3.3 KB
Incoming Volume received by server

Incoming articles:

DateArticles%ArtsArt/secSize%SizeKB/sec
Nov 19 00:01:02 - 00:59:59 208 2.5% 0.06549.8 KB 1.9% 0.16
Nov 19 01:00:00 - 01:59:59 246 3.0% 0.07871.6 KB 3.0% 0.24
Nov 19 02:00:00 - 02:59:59 382 4.6% 0.111.3 MB 4.4% 0.36
Nov 19 03:00:00 - 03:59:59 440 5.3% 0.121.5 MB 5.1% 0.42
Nov 19 04:00:00 - 04:59:59 515 6.2% 0.141.4 MB 4.7% 0.38
Nov 19 05:00:00 - 05:59:59 397 4.8% 0.111.5 MB 5.3% 0.43
Nov 19 06:00:00 - 06:59:59 454 5.4% 0.131.6 MB 5.5% 0.45
Nov 19 07:00:00 - 07:59:59 386 4.6% 0.111.4 MB 5.0% 0.41
Nov 19 08:00:00 - 08:59:59 422 5.1% 0.121.5 MB 5.4% 0.43
Nov 19 09:00:00 - 09:59:59 467 5.6% 0.131.9 MB 6.6% 0.54
Nov 19 10:00:00 - 10:59:59 583 7.0% 0.162.3 MB 8.0% 0.65
Nov 19 11:00:00 - 11:59:59 439 5.3% 0.121.3 MB 4.7% 0.38
Nov 19 12:00:00 - 12:59:59 659 7.9% 0.182.2 MB 7.8% 0.64
Nov 19 13:00:00 - 13:59:59 344 4.1% 0.101.1 MB 3.9% 0.31
Nov 19 14:00:00 - 14:59:59 303 3.6% 0.081.1 MB 3.8% 0.31
Nov 19 15:00:00 - 15:59:59 307 3.7% 0.091.1 MB 3.7% 0.30
Nov 19 16:00:00 - 16:59:59 533 6.4% 0.151.6 MB 5.5% 0.45
Nov 19 17:00:00 - 17:59:59 233 2.8% 0.06802.5 KB 2.7% 0.22
Nov 19 18:00:00 - 18:59:59 167 2.0% 0.05877.3 KB 3.0% 0.24
Nov 19 19:00:00 - 19:59:59 106 1.3% 0.03451.5 KB 1.5% 0.13
Nov 19 20:00:00 - 20:59:59 276 3.3% 0.08667.7 KB 2.3% 0.19
Nov 19 21:00:00 - 21:59:59 159 1.9% 0.04615.9 KB 2.1% 0.17
Nov 19 22:00:00 - 22:59:59 121 1.5% 0.03582.3 KB 2.0% 0.16
Nov 19 23:00:00 - 23:59:59 181 2.2% 0.05530.6 KB 1.8% 0.15
Nov 20 00:00:00 - 00:01:01 5 0.1% 0.0810.7 KB 0.0% 0.18
TOTAL: 23:59:59 8333 100.0% 0.1028.5 MB 100.0% 0.34
Incoming articles
Incoming articles (size)

CNFS buffer status:

BufferClassSizeUsed%UsedCyclesKB/secDays
CYCNGS1NGS1536.0 GB48.0 MB 0.0% 1 0.00 0.00
CYCNGS2NGS1536.0 GB100.1 GB 6.5% 0 0.5434398.54
CYCTXT1TEXT5.0 GB3.9 GB 78.6% 0 0.03 2215.83
TOTAL: 3-3077.0 GB104.1 GB 3.4% 1 0.42-

Sites sending bad articles:

ServerTotalGroupDistDuplicUnappTooOldSiteLineOther
1usenet.blueworldhosting.com 891 96 0 0 0 0 0 0 795
2endofthelinebbs-out.news.weretis.net 434 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 434
3usenet.goja.nl.eu.org 171 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 171
4nntp.comgw.net 136 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 136
5i2pn.org 105 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 105
6newsfeed.bofh.team 94 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 93
7endofthelinebbs.peers.news.panix.com 82 75 0 0 0 0 0 0 7
8news.netfront.net 60 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 60
9newsfeed.xs3.de 44 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 43
10news.hispagatos.org 25 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 6
11news.nntp4.net 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 25
12news.samoylyk.net 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7
13glockenspiel.complete.org 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5
14news.furie.org.uk 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
15usenet.network 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
16news.bbs.nz 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
17194.87.241.33 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
18outgoing.news.lysator.liu.se 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
TOTAL: 18 2090 191 0 2 0 0 0 0 1897

Unwanted newsgroups [Top 20]:

NewsgroupCount
de.sci.announce 168
hispagatos.hacking.ctf 13
hispagatos.hacking.news 5
soc.culture.russia 2
alt.newsleecher 1
hispagatos.hacking.exploits 1
rec.autos.vw 1
TOTAL: 7 191

INND Perl filter [Top 20]:

ReasonCount
EMP (phn path) 1112
EMP (phr path) 316
EMP (md5) 179
Too many newsgroups 146
EMP (phn nph) 65
User-issued cancel 13
EMP (fsl) 6
Too many newsgroups (meow) 6
HTML Multipart 2
Subject (LSDQtNC10YDQttC40YLQtSDQvNC10L3RjyDRgtGA0L7QtSDQstCw0LvQtdC90YLQuNC90L7QsiDRgSDQvNC+0YDQtNCw0YjQutC40L3QsNC80L) 1
Subject (LSDguJ7guJo) 1
TOTAL: 11 1847

NoCeM on Spool:

Issuer (type)NoticesBad PGPCancelSkipTotal
i2pn2-nocem@i2pn2.org (spam)1300329403294
nocem@eternal-september.org (bot)710107101071
robot@pasdenom.info (spam)10101
i2pn2-nocem@i2pn2.org (multipost)12001212
i2pn2-nocem@i2pn2.org (rmp)6001010
robot@pasdenom.info (spam3)60077
robot@pasdenom.info (spam2)40044
TOTAL: 723004366334399

Miscellaneous innd statistics [Top 10]:

EventServerNumber
Including strange strings
endofthelinebbs-out.news.weretis.net 21
usenet.blueworldhosting.com 14
usenet.goja.nl.eu.org 7
nntp.comgw.net 2
newsfeed.xs3.de 2
endofthelinebbs.peers.news.panix.com 2
newsfeed.bofh.team 2
TOTAL: 7 50
TOTAL: 1 50

Outgoing Feeds (innfeed) by Articles:

ServerOfferedTakenRefusedRejectMissSpool%TookElapsed
1nyheter.lysator.liu.se 8774 3656 4155 521 0 0 41%23:59:51
2news.netfront.net 13407 2351 5924 5 0 44 17%23:59:12
3photonic.trudheim.com 9801 783 5672 1872 0 0 7%23:59:42
4news.furie.org.uk 4813 727 2708 5 0 0 15%23:59:03
5endofthelinebbs.peers.news.panix.com 9555 587 7733 6 0 5 6%23:58:48
6usenet.goja.nl.eu.org 9224 466 6783 267 0 0 5%23:59:51
7news.bbs.nz 15100 311 7305 677 0 176 2%23:59:51
8news.nk.ca 11436 268 7158 725 0 92 2%23:59:51
9news.corradoroberto.it 1334 260 642 0 0 0 19%23:18:20
10newsfeed.bofh.team 9491 254 7702 5 0 1 2%23:59:51
11usenet.network 10510 194 7429 146 0 7 1%23:59:51
12news.hispagatos.org 10265 163 7898 236 0 1 1%23:58:58
13news.nntp4.net 10045 147 7845 146 0 0 1%23:59:51
14nntp.comgw.net 9163 124 7701 147 0 2 1%23:59:51
15news.tnetconsulting.net 9519 105 7966 254 0 13 1%23:58:39
16i2pn.org 9432 91 7760 139 0 108 0%23:59:51
17news.weretis.net 8877 87 8056 189 0 5 0%23:58:57
18news.quux.org 6859 79 5595 713 0 5 1%23:59:51
19newsfeed.xs3.de 10212 45 7830 283 0 1 0%23:59:51
20news.chmurka.net 5444 42 4173 0 0 2 0%23:59:51
21ddt.demos.su 175 34 102 0 0 3 19%12:05:21
22news.samoylyk.net 10471 32 8116 27 0 0 0%23:58:52
23usenet.blueworldhosting.com 7011 1 6774 0 0 0 0%23:59:51
24feed.opticnetworks.net 0 0 0 0 0 8333 0%23:59:51
TOTAL: 24 200918 10807 143027 6363 0 8798 5%563:13:46
Outgoing feeds (innfeed) by Articles

Outgoing Feeds (innfeed) by Volume:

ServerAcceptVolRejectVolTotalVolVolume/secVol/ArtElapsed
1nyheter.lysator.liu.se12.1 MB4.1 MB16.2 MB0.2 KB/s4.0 KB23:59:51
2news.netfront.net10.4 MB37.7 KB10.4 MB0.1 KB/s4.5 KB23:59:12
3news.furie.org.uk5.1 MB86.7 KB5.2 MB0.1 KB/s7.3 KB23:59:03
4photonic.trudheim.com4.5 MB5.8 MB10.2 MB0.1 KB/s3.9 KB23:59:42
5endofthelinebbs.peers.news.panix.com2.9 MB12.3 KB2.9 MB0.0 KB/s5.1 KB23:58:48
6newsfeed.bofh.team1.6 MB18.2 KB1.6 MB0.0 KB/s6.4 KB23:59:51
7usenet.goja.nl.eu.org999.5 KB2.2 MB3.2 MB0.0 KB/s4.4 KB23:59:51
8news.quux.org997.2 KB3.8 MB4.8 MB0.1 KB/s6.2 KB23:59:51
9news.bbs.nz929.2 KB3.6 MB4.5 MB0.1 KB/s4.7 KB23:59:51
10usenet.network812.7 KB190.0 KB1002.7 KB0.0 KB/s2.9 KB23:59:51
11news.nk.ca798.8 KB4.2 MB5.0 MB0.1 KB/s5.2 KB23:59:51
12nntp.comgw.net704.2 KB1.5 MB2.2 MB0.0 KB/s8.2 KB23:59:51
13news.corradoroberto.it655.4 KB0.0 KB655.4 KB0.0 KB/s2.5 KB23:18:20
14news.hispagatos.org653.9 KB1.7 MB2.3 MB0.0 KB/s5.9 KB23:58:58
15news.weretis.net640.5 KB2.0 MB2.6 MB0.0 KB/s9.6 KB23:58:57
16news.samoylyk.net627.9 KB57.8 KB685.7 KB0.0 KB/s11.6 KB23:58:52
17newsfeed.xs3.de576.6 KB1.8 MB2.4 MB0.0 KB/s7.4 KB23:59:51
18news.tnetconsulting.net553.1 KB1.6 MB2.1 MB0.0 KB/s6.0 KB23:58:39
19news.nntp4.net456.6 KB1.7 MB2.1 MB0.0 KB/s7.4 KB23:59:51
20ddt.demos.su381.3 KB0.0 KB381.3 KB0.0 KB/s11.2 KB12:05:21
21i2pn.org274.6 KB377.1 KB651.7 KB0.0 KB/s2.8 KB23:59:51
22news.chmurka.net77.2 KB0.0 KB77.2 KB0.0 KB/s1.8 KB23:59:51
23usenet.blueworldhosting.com3.5 KB0.0 KB3.5 KB0.0 KB/s3.5 KB23:59:51
24feed.opticnetworks.net0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s023:59:51
TOTAL: 2446.5 MB34.6 MB81.1 MB0.0 KB/s4.8 KB563:13:46
Outgoing feeds (innfeed) by Volume

NNRP readership statistics:

SystemConnArtsSizeGroupsPostRejElapsed
12001:470:28:a8:3ad5:47ff:fe02:c2fd2774 00.0 KB 0 0 000:24:34
2167.94.146.59 3 00.0 KB 0 0 000:00:04
3147.185.132.162 1 00.0 KB 0 0 000:00:07
4198.235.24.244 1 00.0 KB 0 0 000:00:10
5198.235.24.86 1 00.0 KB 0 0 000:00:00
645-79-163-53.ip.linodeusercontent.com 1 00.0 KB 0 0 000:00:03
745.227.254.49 1 00.0 KB 0 0 000:00:00
8azpdsgc51.stretchoid.com 1 00.0 KB 0 0 000:00:00
9localhost 1 00.0 KB 0 0 000:11:04
10server-0-3.survey.inspici.com 1 00.0 KB 0 0 000:00:03
11timely.monitoring.internet-measurement.com 1 00.0 KB 0 0 000:00:01
12venice.scan.bufferover.run 1 00.0 KB 0 0 000:00:00
TOTAL: 122787 00.0 KB 0 0 000:36:11

NNRP readership statistics (by domain):

SystemConnArtsSizeGroupsPostRejElapsed
1?2775 00.0 KB 0 0 000:35:39
2unresolved 7 00.0 KB 0 0 000:00:22
3*.ip.linodeusercontent.com 1 00.0 KB 0 0 000:00:03
4*.monitoring.internet-measurement.com 1 00.0 KB 0 0 000:00:01
5*.scan.bufferover.run 1 00.0 KB 0 0 000:00:00
6*.stretchoid.com 1 00.0 KB 0 0 000:00:00
7*.survey.inspici.com 1 00.0 KB 0 0 000:00:03
TOTAL: 72787 00.0 KB 0 0 000:36:11

NNRP auth users [Top 20]:

UserConn
getlist 1
TOTAL: 1 1

NNRP total resource statistics [Top 20]:

SystemUser(ms)System(ms)Idle(ms)Elapsed
2001:470:28:a8:3ad5:47ff:fe02:c2fd 9.821 37.620 0.00000:24:34
localhost 179.529 370.549 0.07400:11:04
198.235.24.244 0.003 0.013 0.00000:00:10
147.185.132.162 0.007 0.013 0.00000:00:07
167.94.146.59 0.024 0.046 0.00000:00:04
45-79-163-53.ip.linodeusercontent.com 0.009 0.009 0.00000:00:03
server-0-3.survey.inspici.com 0.004 0.012 0.00000:00:03
timely.monitoring.internet-measurement.com 0.006 0.011 0.00000:00:01
198.235.24.86 0.007 0.010 0.00000:00:00
45.227.254.49 0.004 0.012 0.00000:00:00
azpdsgc51.stretchoid.com 0.000 0.017 0.00000:00:00
venice.scan.bufferover.run 0.005 0.015 0.00000:00:00
TOTAL: 12 189.419 408.327 0.07400:36:11

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

SystemConn
venice.scan.bufferover.run 4
167.94.146.59 1
45.227.254.49 1
azpdsgc51.stretchoid.com 1
TOTAL: 4 7

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

CommandCount
#003 1
#023#001#023#002#023#003#001 1
#026#003#001 1
EHLO www.censys.io 1
MGLNDD_144.172.126.95_119 1
·ÌÖ$(÷ 1
À#024 1
TOTAL: 7 7

NNRP client timeouts [Top 20]:

SystemConnPeer
45.227.254.49 1 1
TOTAL: 1 1 5
innreport from INN 2.8.0 (20240622 prerelease) based on initial work (©) 1996-2001 by Fabien Tassin <fta@sofaraway.org> and enhanced by several contributors since then