Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site amdahl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!harpo!decvax!decwrl!sun!amdahl!gam From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (G A Moffett) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: Save net.flame! Message-ID: <1768@amdahl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 03:02:08 EDT Article-I.D.: amdahl.1768 Posted: Wed Jul 10 03:02:08 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Jul-85 03:29:47 EDT References: <1119@vax135.UUCP> <2952@nsc.UUCP> Organization: Blue Mouse Trailer Resort, Hellmouth, CA Lines: 26 Keywords: disk space, net.flame, net.* Summary: A list of disk usage of various newsgroups Once again, here is perhaps the ``typical'' disk usage of various newsgroups (from 'du -s /usr/spool/news/net/* | sort +0nr'): 8488 sources 7592 micro 3448 sf-lovers 2768 movies 2568 news < -- You are here 2304 nlang 2224 politics* 1784 lang 1640 unix-wizards 1584 auto 1560 women* 1504 music* 1480 wanted 1456 flame* < -- net.flame is here 1400 unix 1360 singles* The '*'ed newsgroups are expired after 10 days, the others after 20. I just thought you might want some real-world data to work with. -- Gordon A. Moffett ...!{ihnp4,cbosgd,sun}!amdahl!gam