From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Apr 17 01:37:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA19737 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 01:37:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rainey.blueneptune.com (root@rainey.blueneptune.com [207.104.147.225]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA19727 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 01:37:50 -0700 (PDT) From: michael@blueneptune.com Received: (from michael@localhost) by rainey.blueneptune.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id BAA25640; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 01:39:02 -0700 Message-Id: <199704170839.BAA25640@rainey.blueneptune.com> Subject: Re: News... To: pete@ns.altadena.net (Pete Carah) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 01:39:02 -0700 (PDT) Cc: jsuter@linus.intrastar.net, isp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199704170755.AAA13430@ns.altadena.net> from "Pete Carah" at Apr 17, 97 00:55:34 am Reply-To: michael@blueneptune.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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