From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 13 03:20:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA21313 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 03:20:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from uucp.DK.net (uucp@uucp.DK.net [193.88.44.47]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id DAA21304 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 03:20:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from pingnet (uucp@localhost) by uucp.DK.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id MAA00124 for hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 12:20:24 +0100 Received: from jblhome by ic1.ic.dk with UUCP id AA28938 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for hackers@freebsd.org); Thu, 13 Mar 1997 12:15:34 +0100 Received: (from jacob@localhost) by pippin.jblhome.ping.dk (8.8.5/8.7.3) id MAA06572; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 12:07:48 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 12:07:48 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <199703131107.MAA06572@pippin.jblhome.ping.dk> From: Jacob Bohn Lorensen To: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Ollivier Robert's message of Tue, 11 Mar 1997 01:23:00 +0100 Subject: Re: On the topic of news servers.. References: <199703102218.OAA02603@aris.jpl.nasa.gov> <19970311012300.06800@keltia.freenix.fr> X-Charset: Latin1 X-Char-Esc: 29 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Ollivier" == Ollivier Robert writes: Ollivier> According to Jake Hamby: >> He says he uses a Perl script to run through the activity log >> and figure out which groups his customers are reading, then >> changes the expire logs to expire messages in unread groups >> after 1 day, while keeping messages in read groups about 7 But - managing a news-server, you may very well serve the readers best doing the exact _opposite_ :-) What I mean is that there is not much point in keeping the groups which are read often longer. Supposedly the articles have been read. Whereas the not-so-often-read groups, you may wish to keep these articles longer until someone has had the chance to read them. It's equally easy to put forward arguments for doing what you describe, though. So every time I think about doing something like this for the news system I administer, I get stuck pondering what strategy to use. I always end up with plain-old expire-time-per-hierarchy. Jacob.