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Subject: Re: News Server reccomendations (one more thing) 
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   of "Thu, 06 Jan 2000 00:10:37 EST." <387423CC.CA150435@pubnix.net> 
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 11:47:55 -0500
From: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU>
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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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