From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Oct 15 17:11:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA20022 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 17:11:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cc-server9.massey.ac.nz (cc-server9.massey.ac.nz [130.123.128.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA20016 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 17:11:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199610160011.RAA20016@freefall.freebsd.org> Received: from tpc-pc1 by cc-server9 with SMTP(PP); Wed, 16 Oct 1996 13:10:35 +1300 X-Sender: CHarding@mail.massey.ac.nz Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 13:10:34 +1200 To: Dror Matalon , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org From: C.R.Harding@massey.ac.nz (Craig Harding) Subject: Re: How to solve the news server problem X-Mailer: Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Apologies for a very late response. It's been a busy week and my email inbox is way too big. At 12:20 AM 10/5/96, Dror Matalon wrote: >Now, I know I'm not the only smart person in the world so I looked >around and sure enough I found > ftp://ftp.math.psu.edu/pub/INN/contrib/actgroups.pl Yeah, I use this. It works well, and is good for controlling your usage of disk space (although it doesn't address the problems of net bandwidth associated with news at all). INN logs all the necessary information about which groups are actually being read, actgroups just reads that log information to massage your expire.ctl. -- C. -- Craig Harding Acting Director, Massey University Television Production Centre "I don't know about God, I just think we're handmade" - Polly