Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!pacbell.com!ucsd!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!kullmar!pkmab!ske From: ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Steady state news. Message-ID: <4635@pkmab.se> Date: 15 Dec 90 00:52:07 GMT References: <1990Dec12.213956.6544@looking.on.ca> Organization: Peridot Konsult i Mellansverige AB, Oerebro, Sweden Lines: 15 In article <1990Dec12.213956.6544@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes: >The value is up to you, but it would no doubt be a factor of their age, >newsgroup, author/site (ie. keep local articles longer) modified by things >like explicit expiry, etc. I think the most natural system for fixed-space expiry is just to look at space down at the level of individual newsgroups, assigning a fixed space for each group. Either that, or just expire in FIFO-order for the whole system, which will get you newgroups that are sized relative to each other according to their volume of postings. -- Kristoffer Eriksson, Peridot Konsult AB, Hagagatan 6, S-703 40 Oerebro, Sweden Phone: +46 19-13 03 60 ! e-mail: ske@pkmab.se Fax: +46 19-11 51 03 ! or ...!{uunet,mcsun}!sunic.sunet.se!kullmar!pkmab!ske