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From: coolidge@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu (John Coolidge)
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Subject: Re: How can I remain calm?
Message-ID: <1989Oct13.195559.28593@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 13 Oct 89 19:55:59 GMT
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asp@uunet.UU.NET (Andrew Partan) writes:
>In article <1989Oct13.125402.17356@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu>, coolidge@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu (John Coolidge) writes:
>> Our sys file is around 4K. I've got the sys files of several of my
>> connections on file, and the smallest was 3k, with the largest at 14K.
>uunet's sys file:

> 176 -rw-rw-r--  1 news       166812 Oct 13 09:40 /usr/spool/news-lib/sys

I said those were the largest I had around, not the largest in the
world! :-)

I knew that uunet's sys file was about as long as they come. It'll be
a while before anyone else comes close, I think...

--John

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