Daily Usenet report

Jan 1 05:13:39 -- Jan 2 05:45:56



Unknown entries from news log file:

First 2 / 2 lines (100.0%)
Jan 1 13:08:12 elvis innd: CNFS-sm: metacycbuff MALT cycbuff is moved to BUF030 remain calm
Jan 2 01:44:13 elvis innd: CNFS-sm: metacycbuff MALT cycbuff is moved to BUF031 remain calm


Log entries by program:

Program nameLines%LinesSize%Size
inn 91768 43.9%10.0 MB 44.6%
nnrpd 55348 26.5%4.6 MB 20.5%
innd 46467 22.2%5.1 MB 22.5%
cnfsstat 12495 6.0%2.4 MB 10.8%
batcher 1734 0.8%200.8 KB 0.9%
innfeed 1270 0.6%165.7 KB 0.7%
controlchan 18 0.0%1.4 KB 0.0%
TOTAL: 7 209100 100.0%22.5 MB100.0%


History cache:

ReasonCount%Count
Negative hits 116267 43.7%
Do not exist 90665 34.1%
Positive hits 42923 16.1%
Cache misses 15974 6.0%
TOTAL: 4 265829 100.0%


INND timer:

Code regionTimePctInvokedMin(ms)Avg(ms)Max(ms)
article cancel00:00:13.504 0.0%694 0.000 19.458 124.000
article control00:00:11.007 0.0%617 0.000 17.840 124.000
article link00:00:00.000 0.0%0 0.000 0.000 0.000
article write00:06:09.050 0.4%65196 0.000 5.661 3768.333
history grep00:00:05.080 0.0%664 0.000 7.651 27.000
history lookup00:11:40.475 0.8%265829 0.000 2.635 21.571
history sync00:00:00.671 0.0%10936 0.000 0.061 8.667
history write00:11:54.288 0.8%90567 0.000 7.887 250.500
idle23:35:21.348 96.1%3124987 5.368 27.175 20474.000
overview write00:09:39.741 0.7%65196 0.000 8.892 303.250
perl filter00:09:23.055 0.6%90549 1.000 6.218 360.667
site send00:00:05.928 0.0%128374 0.000 0.046 3.333
TOTAL: 24:32:18.52524:24:44.147 99.5%----


Control commands to INND:

CommandNumber
flush 2346
flushlogs 1
paused 1
TOTAL: 3 2348


Incoming Feeds (INN):

ServerConnectsOfferedTakenRefusedReject%AccptElapsed
1nntp.noris.net 6 90809 45318 20280 25211 49%29:04:17
2newsfeed0.freenet.de 319 19776 9822 8502 1452 49%24:18:28
3newsfeed1.freenet.de 295 32731 8979 22670 1082 27%24:18:27
4news.nl.linux.org 12 3240 298 2940 2 9%25:41:50
5localhost 8 6 6 0 0 100%00:00:01
6finalfrontier.franken.de 295 0 0 0 0 0%00:00:01
TOTAL: 6 935 146562 64423 54392 27747 43%103:23:04


Incoming articles:

DateArticles%ArtsArt/secSize%SizeKB/sec
Jan 1 05:13:39 - 05:59:59 1214 1.9% 0.446.6 MB 0.2% 2.43
Jan 1 06:00:00 - 06:59:59 1565 2.4% 0.439.9 MB 0.3% 2.82
Jan 1 07:00:00 - 07:59:59 1423 2.2% 0.4010.6 MB 0.3% 3.01
Jan 1 08:00:00 - 08:59:59 1296 2.0% 0.368.0 MB 0.2% 2.29
Jan 1 09:00:00 - 09:59:59 1515 2.3% 0.4286.7 MB 2.4% 24.67
Jan 1 10:00:00 - 10:59:59 1812 2.8% 0.50156.3 MB 4.3% 44.45
Jan 1 11:00:00 - 11:59:59 1879 2.9% 0.52238.5 MB 6.5% 67.85
Jan 1 12:00:00 - 12:59:59 2138 3.3% 0.59272.8 MB 7.4% 77.59
Jan 1 13:00:00 - 13:59:59 1798 2.8% 0.5049.0 MB 1.3% 13.94
Jan 1 14:00:00 - 14:59:59 4030 6.2% 1.12350.4 MB 9.5% 99.67
Jan 1 15:00:00 - 15:59:59 2337 3.6% 0.657.9 MB 0.2% 2.24
Jan 1 16:00:00 - 16:59:59 2988 4.6% 0.8318.1 MB 0.5% 5.15
Jan 1 17:00:00 - 17:59:59 3005 4.6% 0.8324.3 MB 0.7% 6.91
Jan 1 18:00:00 - 18:59:59 3274 5.0% 0.9111.9 MB 0.3% 3.38
Jan 1 19:00:00 - 19:59:59 3102 4.8% 0.8611.8 MB 0.3% 3.35
Jan 1 20:00:00 - 20:59:59 3224 4.9% 0.9011.0 MB 0.3% 3.12
Jan 1 21:00:00 - 21:59:59 3205 4.9% 0.8936.9 MB 1.0% 10.50
Jan 1 22:00:00 - 22:59:59 3713 5.7% 1.0391.0 MB 2.5% 25.90
Jan 1 23:00:00 - 23:59:59 3734 5.7% 1.04358.1 MB 9.7% 101.86
Jan 2 00:00:00 - 00:59:59 4613 7.1% 1.28729.8 MB 19.9% 207.58
Jan 2 01:00:00 - 01:59:59 4410 6.8% 1.23744.0 MB 20.2% 211.63
Jan 2 02:00:00 - 02:59:59 2817 4.3% 0.78158.5 MB 4.3% 45.09
Jan 2 03:00:00 - 03:59:59 2563 3.9% 0.71253.0 MB 6.9% 71.97
Jan 2 04:00:00 - 04:59:59 2052 3.1% 0.5723.8 MB 0.6% 6.76
Jan 2 05:00:00 - 05:45:56 1489 2.3% 0.545.3 MB 0.1% 1.96
TOTAL: 24:32:17 65196 100.0% 0.743.6 GB 100.0% 42.59


CNFS buffer status:

BufferClassSizeUsed%UsedCyclesKB/secDays
BUF001MDEU1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 1 0.00 0.00
BUF002MDEU1.9 GB1.9 GB 98.2% 0 0.15 156.97
BUF003MDEU1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 0 0.00 0.00
BUF004MDEU1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 0 0.00 0.00
BUF005MDEU1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 0 0.00 0.00
BUF006MSUP1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 3 0.00 0.00
BUF007MSUP1.9 GB596.4 MB 30.5% 1 0.27 84.33
BUF008MSUP1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 1 0.00 0.00
BUF009MSUP1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 1 0.00 0.00
BUF010MSUP1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 1 0.00 0.00
BUF011MBIN1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 13 0.00 0.00
BUF012MBIN1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 13 0.00 0.00
BUF013MBIN1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 13 0.00 0.00
BUF014MBIN1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 13 0.00 0.00
BUF015MBIN1.9 GB1023.5 MB 52.4% 12 6.90 3.35
BUF016MBIN1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 12 0.00 0.00
BUF017MBIN1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 12 0.00 0.00
BUF018MBIN1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 12 0.00 0.00
BUF019MBIN1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 12 0.00 0.00
BUF020MBIN1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 12 0.00 0.00
BUF021MBIN1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 10 0.00 0.00
BUF022MBIN1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 12 0.00 0.00
BUF023MBIN1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 12 0.00 0.00
BUF024MBIN1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 12 0.00 0.00
BUF025MBIN1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 12 0.00 0.00
BUF026MALT1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 6 0.00 0.00
BUF027MALT1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 6 0.00 0.00
BUF028MALT1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 6 0.00 0.00
BUF029MALT1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 6 0.00 0.00
BUF030MALT1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 6 28.07 0.82
BUF031MALT1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 6 43.72 0.53
BUF032MALT1.9 GB619.1 MB 31.7% 5 42.12 0.55
BUF033MALT1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 5 0.00 0.00
BUF034MALT1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 5 0.00 0.00
BUF035MALT1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 5 0.00 0.00
BUF036MALT1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 5 0.00 0.00
BUF037MALT1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 5 0.00 0.00
BUF038MALT1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 5 0.00 0.00
BUF039MALT1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 5 0.00 0.00
BUF040MALT1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 5 0.00 0.00
BUF041MALL1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 2 0.00 0.00
BUF042MALL1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 2 0.00 0.00
BUF043MALL1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 2 0.00 0.00
BUF044MALL1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 1 0.00 0.00
BUF045MALL1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 1 0.00 0.00
BUF046MALL1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 1 0.00 0.00
BUF047MALL1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 1 0.00 0.00
BUF048MALL1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 1 0.00 0.00
BUF049MALL1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 1 0.00 0.00
BUF050MALL1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 1 0.00 0.00
BUF051MALL1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 1 0.00 0.00
BUF052MALL1.9 GB1.7 GB 91.7% 0 0.72 32.26
BUF053MALL1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 0 0.00 0.00
BUF054MALL1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 0 0.00 0.00
BUF055MALL1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 0 0.00 0.00
BUF056MALL1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 0 0.00 0.00
BUF057MALL1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 0 0.00 0.00
BUF058MALL1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 0 0.00 0.00
BUF059MALL1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 0 0.00 0.00
BUF060MALL1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 0 0.00 0.00
BUF061MALL1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 0 0.00 0.00
BUF062MALL1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 0 0.00 0.00
BUF063MALL1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 0 0.00 0.00
BUF064MALL1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 0 0.00 0.00
BUF065MALL1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 0 0.00 0.00
BUF066MALL1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 0 0.00 0.00
BUF067MALL1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 0 0.00 0.00
BUF068MALL1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 0 0.00 0.00
BUF069MALL1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 0 0.00 0.00
BUF070MALL1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 0 0.00 0.00
BUF071MALT1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 5 0.00 0.00
BUF072MALT1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 4 0.00 0.00
BUF073MALT1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 5 0.00 0.00
BUF074MALT1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 5 0.00 0.00
BUF075MALT1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 5 0.00 0.00
BUF076MALT1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 5 0.00 0.00
BUF077MALT1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 5 0.00 0.00
BUF078MALT1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 5 0.00 0.00
BUF079MALT1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 5 0.00 0.00
BUF080MALT1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 4 0.00 0.00
BUF086MDEU1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 0 0.00 0.00
BUF088MDEU1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 0 0.00 0.00
BUF089MDEU1.9 GB491.5 KB 0.0% 0 0.00 0.00
BUFCTLMCTL500.0 MB7.4 MB 1.5% 0 0.00 0.00
BUFNOCMNOC500.0 MB186.7 MB 37.3% 1 0.03 215.37
TOTAL: 85-159.3 GB6.0 GB 3.8% 334 9.31-


Sites sending bad articles:

ServerTotalGroupDistDuplicUnappTooOldSiteLineOther
1nntp.noris.net 23647 743 0 0 5 0 0 022899
2newsfeed0.freenet.de 1650 58 0 0 0 0 0 0 1592
3newsfeed1.freenet.de 1256 37 0 0 1 0 0 0 1218
4news-out.odn.de 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12
5news.nl.linux.org 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 6
TOTAL: 5 26572 839 0 0 6 0 0 025727


Unwanted newsgroups [Top 20]:

NewsgroupCount
alt.sex.telephone.ads 96
alt.sex.phone.ads 57
alt.sex.telephone 53
alt.sex.marketplace 48
alt.sex.erotica.market.place 42
alt.sex.erotica.marketplace 40
talk.us.rhode-island 38
macromedia.flash.actionscript3 38
macromedia.flex.general_discussion 22
comp.lang.xharbour 22
microsoft.public.internetexplorer.beta 16
de.soc.arbeitslos 14
alt.penthouse.sex.telephone 14
misc.phone.mobile.iphone 13
microsoft.public.windows.live.sync 11
rec.media.players.portable.ipod 10
sci.physics.foundations 10
comp.sys.laptops.thinkpad 9
alt.sex.girl.watchers 8
alt.sex.voyeurism 7
TOTAL: 171 839


Supposedly-moderated groups with unmoderated postings [Top 20]:

GroupsCount
alt.bigfoot.research 3
alt.christnet.religion 2
alt.disney.disneyland 1
TOTAL: 3 6


INND perl filter [Top 20]:

ReasonCount
EMP (phl) 8519
Poison newsgroup 6334
EMP (md5) 4690
Binary in non-binary group 2606
EMP (fsl) 1026
Scoring filter (8) 218
PFM bot misc 216
Scoring filter (9) 191
Scoring filter (10) 140
Cancel for rejected article 113
HTML post 107
Scoring filter (11) 100
Adult group ECP 99
Scoring filter (12) 78
Scoring filter (13) 28
Scoring filter (14) 17
Scoring filter (17) 7
Scoring filter (15) 6
Attached HTML file 4
Scoring filter (16) 3
TOTAL: 24 24508


INND too many connects per minute:

SystemConn
79.209.101.253 4
TOTAL: 1 4


Miscellaneous innd statistics [Top 10]:

EventServerNumber
Bad Message-ID's offered
newsfeed0.freenet.de 1
newsfeed1.freenet.de 1
TOTAL: 2 2
Huge articles
nntp.noris.net 5
TOTAL: 1 5
Including strange strings
nntp.noris.net 555
newsfeed0.freenet.de 134
newsfeed1.freenet.de 94
TOTAL: 3 783
TOTAL: 3 790


Outgoing Feeds (innfeed) by Articles:

ServerOfferedTakenRefusedRejectMissSpool%TookElapsed
1newsserver.news.garr.it 43335 721 37711 390 0 6 1%25:02:18
2news-in.odn.de 77 20 57 0 0 0 25%05:13:47
3nntp.noris.net 261 0 260 0 0 6 0%07:59:58
4newsfeed.freenet.de 15 0 14 1 0 0 0%02:28:58
TOTAL: 4 43688 741 38042 391 0 3568 1%88:45:01


Outgoing Feeds (innfeed) by Volume:

ServerAcceptVolRejectVolTotalVolVolume/secVol/ArtElapsed
1newsserver.news.garr.it22.0 MB4.2 MB26.2 MB0.3 KB/s24.2 KB25:02:18
2news-in.odn.de102.0 KB0.0 KB102.0 KB0.0 KB/s5.1 KB05:13:47
3nntp.noris.net0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB0.0 KB/s007:59:58
4newsfeed.freenet.de0.0 KB1.5 KB1.5 KB0.0 KB/s1.5 KB02:28:58
TOTAL: 422.1 MB4.2 MB26.3 MB0.1 KB/s23.8 KB88:45:01


UUCP batches created:

ServerOfferedArticlesSizeElapsed
aquanews 102 9842.1 MB00:01:12
billix 9 265662.8 KB00:00:04
chi 9 6491.5 MB00:00:11
classic 7 81258.0 KB00:00:03
crei 61 91189.8 KB00:00:52
duffy1 2 22.6 KB00:00:00
gjbsd 6 1542.9 KB00:00:03
hektor 7 53243.9 KB00:00:03
karnickel 723 6768211.8 MB00:05:21
kaschber 69 226492.4 KB00:00:31
knilch 8 129368.7 KB00:00:04
mbsks 58 93245.0 KB00:00:51
memotech 7 2985.6 KB00:00:03
moldy 4 915.0 KB00:00:02
polaris 4 1157.4 KB00:00:02
sammy 8 22396.7 MB00:00:13
seefeld 7 3188.8 KB00:00:08
silesia 137 8723.9 MB00:01:07
solid 10 10092.9 MB00:00:07
swzcomm 8 171410.7 KB00:00:04
teebox 38 17314.7 MB00:00:25
tychen 83 139445.4 KB00:01:05
unicorn 16 39103.2 KB00:00:07
watari 8 146364.4 KB00:00:05
TOTAL: 24 1391 15782237.5 MB00:12:53


NNRP readership statistics:

SystemConnArtsSizeGroupsPostRejElapsed
1p4fd165fd.dip.t-dialin.net 8 4531.0 MB 60 0 000:15:20
2dslb-092-075-050-175.pools.arcor-ip.net 5 289523.9 KB 15 0 000:50:56
3r5fed.r.pppool.de 4 210450.9 KB 20 1 000:33:28
4rotfl.franken.de1471 177417.9 KB 3769 1 000:24:16
5213.185.132.10 102 160363.4 KB 1540 0 000:03:56
6p54946bac.dip.t-dialin.net 4 137281.0 KB 68 1 000:00:24
7ti0034a380-dhcp1690.bb.online.no 5 72135.5 KB 2426 3 015:17:31
8p54946fc8.dip.t-dialin.net 4 4084.8 KB 68 0 000:00:17
9r2343.r.pppool.de 5 3879.3 KB 11 0 000:27:03
10p549455a0.dip.t-dialin.net 1 2756.7 KB 21 0 000:38:42
11r29ba.r.pppool.de 4 924.3 KB 5 0 000:21:28
12p549446c8.dip.t-dialin.net 1 813.1 KB 8 0 000:32:20
13stefan.franken.de 4 8400.9 KB 19 0 000:02:11
14p4fd1aa11.dip0.t-ipconnect.de 4 6406.1 KB 1 0 000:02:26
15dsl01.83.171.145.67.ip-pool.nefkom.net 3 515.1 KB 12 0 000:00:53
16bilbo.franken.de 3 23.5 KB 41 0 000:19:07
TOTAL: 161628 16414.2 MB 8084 6 036:37:30


NNRP readership statistics (by domain):

SystemConnArtsSizeGroupsPostRejElapsed
1*.dip.t-dialin.net 18 6651.5 MB 225 1 001:27:05
2*.pools.arcor-ip.net 5 289523.9 KB 15 0 000:50:56
3*.r.pppool.de 13 257554.5 KB 36 1 001:22:00
4*.franken.de1774 187822.3 KB 3829 1 000:46:16
5unresolved 102 160363.4 KB 1540 0 000:03:56
6*.bb.online.no 5 72135.5 KB 2426 3 015:17:31
7*.dip0.t-ipconnect.de 5 6406.1 KB 1 0 000:32:27
8*.83.171.145.67.ip-pool.nefkom.net 3 515.1 KB 12 0 000:00:53
9*.w.pppool.de 7 00.0 KB 0 0 003:14:41
10*.83.171.155.50.ip-pool.nefkom.net 27 00.0 KB 0 0 013:01:24
11*.central.biz.rr.com 3 00.0 KB 0 0 000:00:17
TOTAL: 111962 16414.2 MB 8084 6 036:37:31


Curious NNRP server explorers [Top 20]:

SystemConn
finalfrontier.franken.de 295
dsl01.83.171.155.50.ip-pool.nefkom.net 27
w1a1f.w.pppool.de 7
rrcs-96-11-228-244.central.biz.rr.com 3
mallard.franken.de 1
p4ff20ba9.dip0.t-ipconnect.de 1
TOTAL: 6 334


NNRP no permission clients:

SystemConn
mes78-1-82-242-49-150.fbx.proxad.net 3
TOTAL: 1 3


NNRP gethostbyaddr failures [Top 20]:

SystemConn
213.185.132.10 102
TOTAL: 1 102


NNRP client timeouts [Top 20]:

SystemConnPeer
w1a1f.w.pppool.de 6 0
ti0034a380-dhcp1690.bb.online.no 4 0
rrcs-96-11-228-244.central.biz.rr.com 3 0
p4ff20ba9.dip0.t-ipconnect.de 1 0
p549446c8.dip.t-dialin.net 1 0
p549455a0.dip.t-dialin.net 1 0
TOTAL: 6 16 0


Newsgroup request counts (by category):

CategoryCountPct
1de 1501 91.8%
2rec 100 6.1%
3ger 34 2.1%
TOTAL: 3 1635100.0%


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

NewsgroupCount
1de.alt.sysadmin.recovery 224
2de.rec.heimwerken 198
3de.etc.beruf.selbstaendig 159
4de.etc.fahrzeug.auto 113
5rec.sport.soccer 94
6de.rec.fahrrad 87
7de.soc.recht.misc 82
8de.admin.net-abuse.mail 73
9de.rec.film.misc 58
10de.soc.umwelt 45
11de.test 43
12de.etc.sprache.deutsch 40
13de.rec.sport.fussball 35
14ger.ct 34
15de.etc.haushalt 32
16de.soc.verkehr 25
17de.rec.mampf 23
18de.rec.tv.lindenstrasse 22
19de.alt.netdigest 21
20de.comp.sys.mac.misc 20
21de.sci.astronomie 17
22de.alt.dateien.weibsbilder 13
23de.comm.anbieter.festnetz.tarife 12
24de.rec.tv.misc 11
25de.comp.security.misc 11
26de.alt.folklore.computer 11
27de.etc.post 11
28de.comp.hardware.laufwerke.festplatten 10
29de.comp.lang.java 8
30de.rec.sf.startrek.enterprise 7
31de.comm.anbieter.festnetz.misc 6
32de.comp.security.firewall 6
33de.org.ccc 6
34de.soc.recht.strafrecht 6
35de.comm.software.mailreader.the-bat 6
36de.comm.technik.isdn 5
37rec.games.go 5
38de.comm.infosystems.www.authoring.misc 5
39de.rec.buecher 5
40de.comp.lang.php.misc 5
41de.rec.sport.laufen.misc 4
42de.sci.medizin.misc 4
43de.talk.tagesgeschehen 3
44de.rec.sport.laufen.trainingswoche 3
45de.rec.motorrad 3
46de.alt.admin 3
47de.rec.hoerspiel 3
48de.alt.fan.tabak 3
49de.rec.sf.babylon5.misc 2
50de.comp.sys.mac.lokale-netze 2
51de.comp.text.xml 2
52de.rec.tiere.aquaristik 2
53de.sci.medizin.diabetes 1
54rec.music.early 1
55de.comp.lang.php.datenbanken 1
56de.admin.news.groups 1
57de.comp.lang.javascript 1
58de.alt.recovery.webauthor 1
59de.rec.sf.stargate 1
TOTAL: 59 1635


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