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Date:      Thu, 06 Jan 2000 11:47:55 -0500
From:      Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU>
To:        Andrew <andrew@pubnix.net>
Cc:        Steve Kaczkowski <steve@inc.net>, "Robert J. Adams" <radams@siscom.net>, "Gary D. Margiotta" <gary@tbe.net>, Troy Settle <troy@picus.com>, FreeBSD ISP <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: News Server reccomendations (one more thing) 
Message-ID:  <200001061647.LAA26911@benge.graphics.cornell.edu>
In-Reply-To: Message from Andrew <andrew@pubnix.net>  of "Thu, 06 Jan 2000 00:10:37 EST." <387423CC.CA150435@pubnix.net> 

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>> Personally I'm waiting for everyone to stop passing the
>> alt.binaries.warez.* groups,
>> doing that alone would probably drop news traffic by 70%...
>>
>> All in favor say AYE!
>
>I don't think that will solve the problem, look at alt.binaries.pictures as mo
>re
>the sources of the traffic.

Heh.  I stopped taking alt.binaries.* and reduced expire on alt.* with
some exceptions and my spool still fits on 2 2GB Baracudas.  And I'm
still keeping 7 days or more of most big-8 groups.  This is a 7-year-old
server.  News is still not all that big if you get rid of the junk that
just doesn't belong there.

BTW, is 7 years of full-time news without a failure a record for disk
longevity?

-Mitch


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