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From: rfarris@serene.UUCP (Rick Farris)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Daily news volume disagrees w/uunet stats
Message-ID: <780@serene.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jul 89 04:57:22 GMT
References: <123@uucs1.UUCP> <1989Jul10.223958.28264@fxgrp.fx.com>
Reply-To: rfarris@serene.UUNET (Rick Farris)
Organization: Serenity BBS, Del Mar, California
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In article <1989Jul10.223958.28264@fxgrp.fx.com> grady@fxgrp.fx.com (Steven Grady) writes:
In article <123@uucs1.UUCP> gaf@uucs1.UUCP () writes:
> >I've been reading news.lists from another site for some months, and
> >the daily average at uunet always seems to be 4 - 5 Mb per day.

> This comes out to 50% more space than expected from uunet's lists.

Ok, guys, time for the thinking hats! :-)

Do you suppose that the figures that uunet reports are for
*compressed* news?


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