Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 01:39:02 -0700 (PDT) From: michael@blueneptune.com To: pete@ns.altadena.net (Pete Carah) Cc: jsuter@linus.intrastar.net, isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: News... Message-ID: <199704170839.BAA25640@rainey.blueneptune.com> In-Reply-To: <199704170755.AAA13430@ns.altadena.net> from "Pete Carah" at Apr 17, 97 00:55:34 am
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> Not to speak of the net itself; we (not a particularly major player, > but we get independent feeds from 3 of the "top 1k") are currently > getting between 1 and 2 gb/day in, the great majority (all but about 300mb) > in alt.binaries, evenly split between various cracks and pictures (and that's > in spite of having all warez and most binaries.games groups 'x'd out; I've > seen too much copyright stuff in them. The cracker folks post to > non-obvious groups (like already-passworded copies of photoshop showing > up in alt.binaries.games, which I've seen more than once)). Due to disk limitations, we do not get the groups known to get large messages regularly (alt.binaries.*, and a few others). It's pretty simple to write a quick script which will go through the news spool and remove all files of a particular size, or at least report to you what they are. We don't run one on a regular basis, but will run it to clear out some space if the news disk starts to fill up and cause problems. -- Michael Bryan michael@blueneptune.com
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