Daily Usenet report

Aug 28 01:00:00 -- Aug 28 23:15:00

Unknown entries from news log file:

First 1 / 1 lines (100.0%)

Aug 28 04:27:47 gallifrey innd[94815]: filter: HTML statistics file directory /var/www is not writable/searchable by the INN runtime user; fix ownership or permissions, or disable the corresponding output

Log entries by program:

Program nameLines%LinesSize%Size
inn 149458 81.4%29.2 MB 87.2%
innd 26016 14.2%3.2 MB 9.6%
innfeed 7565 4.1%1.0 MB 3.0%
nnrpd 605 0.3%66.4 KB 0.2%
nocem 55 0.0%6.8 KB 0.0%
controlchan 2 0.0%0.2 KB 0.0%
overchan 2 0.0%0.3 KB 0.0%
TOTAL: 7 183703 100.0%33.5 MB100.0%

Control commands to innd:

CommandNumber
go 90
logmode 1
mode 136
name 1
pause 90
renumber 1
reserve 2
shutdown 3
TOTAL: 8 324

Incoming feeds (innd):

ServerConnectsOfferedTakenRefusedReject%AccptElapsed
1newsfeed.bofh.team 1959 138048 40666 1239 96143 29%4764:25:51
2nk-out.news.weretis.net 22 10920 1137 8691 1092 10%49:32:49
3feeder.erje.net 13 7524 545 5952 1027 7%64:25:07
4news.nntp4.net 17 5968 485 4613 870 8%20:02:53
5newsfeed.endofthelinebbs.com 9 4527 484 3303 740 10%23:55:24
6news.quux.org 10 4033 361 3336 336 8%24:55:28
7peer.alt119.net 9 5257 339 4427 491 6%25:40:47
8news.snarked.org 537 4675 309 3964 402 6%111:04:51
9nntp.comgw.net 6 1766 285 1240 241 16%23:55:32
10news.sonologic.net 10 5264 256 4496 512 4%23:54:47
11nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu 543 8189 220 7368 601 2%43:16:31
12nk-out.news.chmurka.net 8 1848 202 1502 144 10%23:55:53
13news.corradoroberto.it 11 1539 126 1226 187 8%22:44:47
14localhost 79 76 76 0 0 100%00:14:47
15news.trigofacile.com 29 307 35 249 23 11%15:46:12
TOTAL: 15 3262 199941 45526 51606 102809 22%5237:51:39

Incoming volume (innd):

ServerAcceptVolDupVolRejVolTotalVol%AccVol/Art
1newsfeed.bofh.team26.5 GB1.0 GB63.7 GB91.2 GB 29%698.7 KB
2nk-out.news.weretis.net3.0 MB2.8 MB981.7 KB6.7 MB 43%3.1 KB
3feeder.erje.net1.4 MB1.5 MB1.5 MB4.5 MB 32%2.9 KB
4newsfeed.endofthelinebbs.com1.3 MB2.0 MB1.6 MB4.9 MB 26%4.1 KB
5news.nntp4.net1.2 MB1.7 MB2.6 MB5.5 MB 21%4.1 KB
6news.quux.org1.0 MB1.6 MB261.9 KB2.8 MB 35%4.2 KB
7peer.alt119.net976.2 KB1.4 MB431.8 KB2.7 MB 34%3.4 KB
8news.snarked.org960.8 KB1.6 MB457.8 KB3.0 MB 31%4.3 KB
9nntp.comgw.net810.5 KB625.3 KB339.4 KB1.7 MB 45%3.4 KB
10news.sonologic.net649.1 KB2.0 MB437.0 KB3.0 MB 21%4.0 KB
11nk-out.news.chmurka.net601.9 KB490.4 KB19.6 KB1.1 MB 54%3.2 KB
12nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu555.9 KB1.2 MB539.8 KB2.3 MB 23%2.9 KB
13news.corradoroberto.it335.1 KB576.9 KB111.5 KB1023.6 KB 32%3.3 KB
14localhost309.9 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB309.9 KB100%4.1 KB
15news.trigofacile.com82.3 KB59.6 KB1.3 KB143.1 KB 57%2.5 KB
TOTAL: 1526.5 GB1.0 GB63.7 GB91.2 GB 29%644.6 KB

Incoming articles (innd):

DateArticles%ArtsArt/secSize%SizeKB/sec
Aug 28 01:00:00 - 01:59:59 1937 4.3% 0.541.2 GB 4.4% 341.68
Aug 28 02:00:00 - 02:59:59 1952 4.3% 0.541.1 GB 4.2% 329.13
Aug 28 03:00:00 - 03:59:59 2045 4.5% 0.571.2 GB 4.3% 338.47
Aug 28 04:00:00 - 04:59:59 2223 4.9% 0.621.3 GB 4.7% 366.40
Aug 28 05:00:00 - 05:59:59 2254 5.0% 0.631.2 GB 4.6% 355.05
Aug 28 06:00:00 - 06:59:59 2028 4.5% 0.561.1 GB 4.2% 328.40
Aug 28 07:00:00 - 07:59:59 2279 5.0% 0.631.3 GB 4.9% 382.35
Aug 28 08:00:00 - 08:59:59 2015 4.4% 0.561.1 GB 4.0% 309.51
Aug 28 09:00:00 - 09:59:59 2164 4.8% 0.601.2 GB 4.4% 339.27
Aug 28 10:00:00 - 10:59:59 1992 4.4% 0.551.1 GB 4.2% 322.98
Aug 28 11:00:00 - 11:59:59 2006 4.4% 0.561.1 GB 4.2% 326.79
Aug 28 12:00:00 - 12:59:59 1942 4.3% 0.541.1 GB 4.3% 334.09
Aug 28 13:00:00 - 13:59:59 1975 4.3% 0.551.1 GB 4.2% 329.48
Aug 28 14:00:00 - 14:59:59 1974 4.3% 0.551.2 GB 4.4% 342.74
Aug 28 15:00:00 - 15:59:59 2179 4.8% 0.611.3 GB 4.9% 382.88
Aug 28 16:00:00 - 16:59:59 2103 4.6% 0.581.2 GB 4.7% 362.54
Aug 28 17:00:00 - 17:59:59 2152 4.7% 0.601.3 GB 5.0% 389.32
Aug 28 18:00:00 - 18:59:59 2223 4.9% 0.621.4 GB 5.4% 416.59
Aug 28 19:00:00 - 19:59:59 2227 4.9% 0.621.4 GB 5.3% 411.46
Aug 28 20:00:00 - 20:59:59 2014 4.4% 0.561.3 GB 4.9% 378.56
Aug 28 21:00:00 - 21:59:59 1715 3.8% 0.481.1 GB 4.1% 319.97
Aug 28 22:00:00 - 22:59:59 1624 3.6% 0.451.0 GB 3.8% 297.72
Aug 28 23:00:00 - 23:15:00 416 0.9% 0.46268.9 MB 1.0% 305.93
TOTAL: 22:15:00 45439 100.0% 0.5726.7 GB 100.0% 349.75

Sites sending bad articles:

ServerTotalGroupDistDuplicUnappTooOldSiteLineOther
1newsfeed.bofh.team 97408 92929 0 1527 0 01548 0 1404
2nk-out.news.weretis.net 1088 60 0 846 0 0 86 0 96
3feeder.erje.net 939 282 0 400 0 0 97 0 160
4news.nntp4.net 910 73 0 446 0 0 131 0 260
5newsfeed.endofthelinebbs.com 722 131 0 429 0 0 55 0 107
6nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu 602 115 0 386 0 0 47 0 54
7news.sonologic.net 508 31 0 446 0 0 27 0 4
8peer.alt119.net 480 33 0 400 0 0 45 0 2
9news.snarked.org 402 51 0 328 0 0 20 0 3
10news.quux.org 354 23 0 316 0 0 11 0 4
11nntp.comgw.net 245 6 0 153 0 0 81 0 5
12news.corradoroberto.it 187 25 0 160 0 0 2 0 0
13nk-out.news.chmurka.net 151 8 0 143 0 0 0 0 0
14news.trigofacile.com 23 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 1
TOTAL: 14104019 93767 0 6002 0 02150 0 2100

Unwanted newsgroups [Top 20]:

NewsgroupCount
alt.binaries.hdtv.x264 4250
alt.binaries.amazing 3380
alt.binaries.backup 2913
alt.binaries.multimedia.anime.highspeed 2797
alt.binaries.xylo 2394
alt.binaries.encrypted 2184
alt.binaries.teevee 1932
alt.binaries.conspiracy 1909
alt.binaries.big 1888
alt.binaries.astronomy 1854
alt.binaries.u4e 1783
alt.binaries.ghosts 1780
alt.binaries.font 1689
alt.binaries.town 1688
alt.binaries.pwp 1651
alt.binaries.usenetrevolution 1625
alt.binaries.ftn 1493
alt.binaries.noprobs 1476
alt.binaries.dump 1474
alt.binaries.nzb 1474
TOTAL: 235 93767

Unwanted sites in Path header field [Top 20]:

SiteCount
news.newsdemon.com 1398
news.neodome.net 714
news.mixmin.net 38
TOTAL: 3 2150

cleanfeed-ng events [Top 50]:

ActionRuleCount
rejectemp.md5 525
audityenc.structure.missing_end 348
rejectcrosspost 217
rejectcancel.user 41
rejectbinary.mime 26
audityenc.metadata.part_size 13
auditemp.phn 3
rejectbinary.image 3
auditmime.multipart.boundary_not_found 2
rejecthtml.article 1
TOTAL: 10- 1179

Perl filter (innd) [Top 20]:

ReasonCount
[CF-EMP-MD5] EMP duplicate detected by MD5 fingerprint 525
[CF-CROSSPOST] Too many newsgroups 216
[CF-CANCEL-USER] User-issued cancel 41
[CF-BINARY-MIME] Binary: misplaced binary 26
[CF-BINARY-IMAGE] Binary Image: misplaced jpg 2
[CF-BINARY-IMAGE] Binary Image: misplaced png 1
[CF-CROSSPOST] Too many newsgroups (meow) 1
[CF-HTML-ARTICLE] HTML Multipart 1
TOTAL: 8 813

NoCeM on spool:

Issuer (type)NoticesBad PGPCancelSkipTotal
robot@pasdenom.info (spam2)18002020
robot@pasdenom.info (spam3)40088
robot@pasdenom.info (spam4)40044
TOTAL: 326003232

Miscellaneous innd statistics [Top 10]:

EventServerNumber
Bad command received
newsfeed.bofh.team 1144
TOTAL: 1 1144
Huge articles
newsfeed.bofh.team 1156
TOTAL: 1 1156
Including strange strings
news.nntp4.net 4
feeder.erje.net 4
nk-out.news.weretis.net 4
newsfeed.endofthelinebbs.com 3
newsfeed.bofh.team 2
news.sonologic.net 2
news.snarked.org 1
TOTAL: 7 20
No colon-space in header field
newsfeed.bofh.team 3
TOTAL: 1 3
TOTAL: 4 2323

Outgoing feeds (innfeed) by articles:

ServerOfferedTakenRefusedRejectMissSpool%TookElapsed
1nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu 45678 41260 3266 852 0 58 90%22:19:22
2news.quux.org 4087 75 4011 1 0 0 1%22:15:50
3news.nntp4.net 3923 75 3846 0 0 0 1%22:07:21
4newsfeed.endofthelinebbs.com 6346 73 3857 5 0 0 1%22:07:21
5nntp.comgw.net 4096 73 4021 0 0 13 1%22:07:21
6news.snarked.org 4093 73 4012 0 0 0 1%22:07:21
7news.sonologic.net 4175 71 4092 5 0 0 1%22:07:21
8nk-in.news.weretis.net 4460 60 4383 1 0 0 1%22:07:21
9feeder.erje.net 4337 54 4262 4 0 0 1%22:07:21
10news.corradoroberto.it 533 1 523 1 0 0 0%19:42:47
11news.trigofacile.com 195 0 195 0 0 0 0%12:58:13
12aioe.org 0 0 0 0 0 4441 0%22:08:17
13chmurka.net 0 0 0 0 0 0 0%00:20:00
14de-l.enfer-du-nord.net 0 0 0 0 0 4441 0%22:08:17
15feed.le-studio75.com 0 0 0 0 0 45280 0%22:08:17
16hal-mli.net 0 0 0 0 0 0 0%22:08:17
17just2write2.myftp.org 0 0 0 0 0 4445 0%22:08:17
18mccarragher.com 0 0 0 0 0 4465 0%22:14:15
19nedknow-in.feed.uzoreto.com 0 0 0 0 0 45280 0%22:08:17
20neva.ru 0 0 0 0 0 6262 0%22:07:21
21news.albasani.net 0 0 0 0 0 4444 0%22:08:17
22news.buerger.net 0 0 0 0 0 4472 0%22:07:21
23news.dne3.net 0 0 0 0 0 0 0%00:35:42
24news.furie.co.uk 0 0 0 0 0 45280 0%22:08:17
25news.gabrix.ath.cx 0 0 0 0 0 4444 0%22:08:17
26news.hub.org 0 0 0 0 0 617 0%22:08:17
27news.iridiumlinux.org 0 0 0 0 0 1846 0%22:08:17
28news.ripco.com 0 0 0 0 0 4442 0%22:08:17
29news.spacesst.com 0 0 0 0 0 4444 0%22:08:17
30news.telesweet.net 0 0 0 0 0 4437 0%22:05:34
31news.ycache.com 0 0 0 0 0 4434 0%22:05:34
32newsfeed.bofh.team 0 0 0 0 0 4220 0%22:07:21
33newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de 0 0 0 0 0 4444 0%22:08:17
34newsfeed.news4us.nl 0 0 0 0 0 4444 0%22:08:17
35newsfeed.x-privat.org 0 0 0 0 0 4444 0%22:08:17
36newsfeed1.swip.net 0 0 0 0 0 0 0%22:08:17
37nyheter.lysator.liu.se 0 0 0 0 0 45237 0%22:08:17
38peer.alt119.net 0 0 0 0 0 4179 0%22:08:17
39sonarsouth.com 0 0 0 0 0 0 0%22:08:17
40tranquility.net 0 0 0 0 0 4444 0%22:08:17
41uca516916.inbound.news.uu.net 0 0 0 0 0 45280 0%22:08:17
42usenet.blueworldhosting.com 0 0 0 0 0 3333 0%22:14:56
TOTAL: 42 81923 41815 36468 869 0 313570 51%875:07:57

Outgoing feeds (innfeed) by volume:

ServerAcceptVolRejectVolTotalVolVolume/secVol/ArtElapsed
1nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu26.8 GB2.6 MB26.8 GB349.7 KB/s667.4 KB22:19:22
2news.nntp4.net308.7 KB0.0 KB308.7 KB0.0 KB/s4.1 KB22:07:21
3news.quux.org308.7 KB1.5 KB310.1 KB0.0 KB/s4.1 KB22:15:50
4nntp.comgw.net304.8 KB0.0 KB304.8 KB0.0 KB/s4.2 KB22:07:21
5newsfeed.endofthelinebbs.com304.6 KB12.0 KB316.7 KB0.0 KB/s4.1 KB22:07:21
6news.snarked.org301.3 KB0.0 KB301.3 KB0.0 KB/s4.1 KB22:07:21
7nk-in.news.weretis.net267.0 KB1.5 KB268.4 KB0.0 KB/s4.4 KB22:07:21
8news.sonologic.net250.2 KB60.2 KB310.4 KB0.0 KB/s4.1 KB22:07:21
9feeder.erje.net142.9 KB7.3 KB150.2 KB0.0 KB/s2.6 KB22:07:21
10news.corradoroberto.it2.5 KB1.6 KB4.1 KB0.0 KB/s2.0 KB19:42:47
11aioe.org0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s022:08:17
12chmurka.net0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s000:20:00
13de-l.enfer-du-nord.net0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s022:08:17
14feed.le-studio75.com0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s022:08:17
15hal-mli.net0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s022:08:17
16just2write2.myftp.org0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s022:08:17
17mccarragher.com0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s022:14:15
18nedknow-in.feed.uzoreto.com0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s022:08:17
19neva.ru0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s022:07:21
20news.albasani.net0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s022:08:17
21news.buerger.net0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s022:07:21
22news.dne3.net0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s000:35:42
23news.furie.co.uk0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s022:08:17
24news.gabrix.ath.cx0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s022:08:17
25news.hub.org0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s022:08:17
26news.iridiumlinux.org0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s022:08:17
27news.ripco.com0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s022:08:17
28news.spacesst.com0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s022:08:17
29news.telesweet.net0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s022:05:34
30news.trigofacile.com0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s012:58:13
31news.ycache.com0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s022:05:34
32newsfeed.bofh.team0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s022:07:21
33newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s022:08:17
34newsfeed.news4us.nl0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s022:08:17
35newsfeed.x-privat.org0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s022:08:17
36newsfeed1.swip.net0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s022:08:17
37nyheter.lysator.liu.se0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s022:08:17
38peer.alt119.net0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s022:08:17
39sonarsouth.com0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s022:08:17
40tranquility.net0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s022:08:17
41uca516916.inbound.news.uu.net0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s022:08:17
42usenet.blueworldhosting.com0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s022:14:56
TOTAL: 4226.8 GB2.7 MB26.8 GB8.9 KB/s658.5 KB875:07:57

NNRP readership statistics [Top 100]:

SystemConnArtsSizeGroupsPostRejElapsed
1doctor.nl2k.ab.ca 92 8981.3 MB 110 77 002:03:49
2ns2.nl2k.ab.ca 1 10.7 KB 1 1 000:01:01
TOTAL: 2 93 8991.3 MB 111 78 002:04:50

NNRP connection statistics (by domain) [Top 100]:

SystemConnArtsSizeGroupsPostRejElapsed
1*.nl2k.ab.ca 93 8991.3 MB 111 78 002:04:50
2*.66.censys-scanner.com 13 00.0 KB 0 0 000:00:09
3unresolved 10 00.0 KB 0 0 000:00:02
4*.nk.ca 2 00.0 KB 0 0 000:00:00
TOTAL: 4 118 8991.3 MB 111 78 002:05:02

NNRP total resource statistics [Top 20]:

SystemUser(ms)System(ms)Idle(ms)Elapsed
doctor.nl2k.ab.ca 8.402 6.514 0.00002:03:49
ns2.nl2k.ab.ca 0.121 0.026 0.00000:01:01
142.172.132.66.censys-scanner.com 1.404 0.072 0.00000:00:05
200.186.132.66.censys-scanner.com 2.304 0.095 0.00000:00:03
212.102.40.218 2.291 0.097 0.00000:00:01
45-79-149-61.ip.linodeusercontent.com 0.132 0.078 0.00000:00:01
45-133-173-202.infrawat.ch 0.070 0.031 0.00000:00:00
245.211.203.35.bc.googleusercontent.com 0.237 0.016 0.00000:00:00
57.146.94.167.censys-scanner.com 0.162 0.099 0.00000:00:00
121.211.203.35.bc.googleusercontent.com 0.149 0.026 0.00000:00:00
gallifrey.nk.ca 0.153 0.046 0.00000:00:00
reykjavik.scan.bufferover.run 0.116 0.086 0.00000:00:00
azpdcggaileb.stretchoid.com 0.144 0.073 0.00000:00:00
71.6.134.233 0.075 0.018 0.00000:00:00
89-21-67-173.infrawat.ch 0.063 0.039 0.00000:00:00
194-88-98-83.infrawat.ch 0.062 0.039 0.00000:00:00
69-5-169-27.infrawat.ch 0.072 0.030 0.00000:00:00
147.185.132.112 0.069 0.031 0.00000:00:00
TOTAL: 18 16.026 7.416 0.00002:05:08

Curious NNRP explorers [Top 20]:

SystemConn
200.186.132.66.censys-scanner.com 10
212.102.40.218 10
142.172.132.66.censys-scanner.com 6
57.146.94.167.censys-scanner.com 3
121.211.203.35.bc.googleusercontent.com 2
45-79-149-61.ip.linodeusercontent.com 2
azpdcggaileb.stretchoid.com 2
gallifrey.nk.ca 2
reykjavik.scan.bufferover.run 2
147.185.132.112 1
194-88-98-83.infrawat.ch 1
245.211.203.35.bc.googleusercontent.com 1
45-133-173-202.infrawat.ch 1
69-5-169-27.infrawat.ch 1
71.6.134.233 1
89-21-67-173.infrawat.ch 1
TOTAL: 16 46

NNRP no permission clients [Top 20]:

SystemConn
142.172.132.66.censys-scanner.com 3
57.146.94.167.censys-scanner.com 3
121.211.203.35.bc.googleusercontent.com 2
45-79-149-61.ip.linodeusercontent.com 2
azpdcggaileb.stretchoid.com 2
reykjavik.scan.bufferover.run 2
147.185.132.112 1
194-88-98-83.infrawat.ch 1
245.211.203.35.bc.googleusercontent.com 1
45-133-173-202.infrawat.ch 1
69-5-169-27.infrawat.ch 1
71.6.134.233 1
89-21-67-173.infrawat.ch 1
TOTAL: 13 21

NNRP gethostbyaddr failures [Top 20]:

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

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

SystemConn
doctor.nl2k.ab.ca 6
ns2.nl2k.ab.ca 1
TOTAL: 2 7

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

CommandCount
XTHREAD DBINIT 7
TOTAL: 1 7

NNRP client timeouts [Top 20]:

SystemConnPeer
doctor.nl2k.ab.ca 2 0
TOTAL: 1 2 0

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

HierarchyCountPct
1rec 524 58.3%
2comp 168 18.7%
3can 151 16.8%
4alt 30 3.3%
5edm 20 2.2%
6soc 6 0.7%
TOTAL: 6 899100.0%

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

NewsgroupCount
1rec.arts.drwho 440
2comp.os.linux.misc 144
3can.politics 141
4rec.arts.sf.fandom 26
5rec.arts.sf.tv 22
6comp.lang.c 20
7edm.general 17
8alt.christnet.christianlife 16
9rec.sport.soccer 16
10can.general 8
11rec.arts.sf.written 8
12soc.culture.canada 6
13alt.christnet 5
14alt.christnet.bible 5
15alt.christnet.prayer 4
16comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc 4
17rec.sport.tennis 4
18edm.news.stats 3
19can.config 2
20rec.arts.sf.misc 2
21rec.arts.sf.movies 2
22rec.arts.sf.science 2
23rec.arts.startrek.current 2
TOTAL: 23 899
innreport from INN 2.8.0 (20260828 snapshot) based on initial work (©) 1996-2001 by Fabien Tassin <fta@sofaraway.org> and enhanced by several contributors since then