Path: utzoo!censor!becker!bdb
From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: news.announce.newusers (was Re: Reader polls)
Message-ID: <1077@becker.UUCP>
Date: 12 Nov 89 09:03:55 GMT
References: <8911091544.AA21726@thep.lu.se> <1989Nov9.191236.23264@agate.berkeley.edu> <351@crabcake> <110@toaster.SFSU.EDU> <353@crabcake> <3032@splut.conmicro.com>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
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In article <3032@splut.conmicro.com> jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) writes:
|In article <110@toaster.SFSU.EDU> eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes:
|[...]
|Until I get news 3.0 running here, or figure out a way to expire
|news.announce.newusers under different rules than all other groups
|without running expire twice, it'll stay that way, too. (For those who
|arenew to this, expire is an expensive program to run, both in terms of
|time and CPU.) As I write this, expire has been running over 2 hours and
|9:43 of CPU, and isn't halfway through. I'm not about to run something
|like that twice a day unless I really need to for some reason like being
|tight on disk space.

	Doctor! Quick! Administer a dose of
	C news! This patient has all the symptoms...

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