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From: karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: How many days do YOU keep news on the system?
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Date: 6 Dec 88 16:05:54 GMT
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In-reply-to: brianop@salem1.UUCP's message of 3 Dec 88 02:17:42 GMT

brianop@salem1.UUCP (Brian McBee) writes:
   I'm doing an informal poll to see how much news is kept on all those sites
   out there.

I asked essentially the same question about a year ago, and got lots
of interesting responses.  Space dedication varies mighty wildly from
place to place.  Here, we use an entire Eagle drive, and expire weekly
on a 6-week basis, on Saturday early AM:

[200] [10:43am] tut:/dino0/karl# df /usr/spool/news
Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/iop/pdisk03h     386942  326442   60500    84%    /usr/spool/news

--Karl