Xref: utzoo news.admin:12441 news.software.b:6978 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!caen!ox.com!ox.com!emv From: emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Subject: Re: Old news is coming in fast. Message-ID: Date: 27 Feb 91 22:51:08 GMT References: <1991Feb27.193118.22487@mp.cs.niu.edu> Sender: usenet@ox.com (Usenet News Administrator) Organization: OTA Limited Partnership, Ann Arbor MI. Lines: 18 In-Reply-To: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu's message of 27 Feb 91 19:31:18 GMT In article <1991Feb27.193118.22487@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes: HELP! My news partition is filling up fast. Could it be due to all of those Jan 30th articles that have suddenly started coming in? It looks as though cs.widener.edu is back on the net, now that their router is working again. Unfortunately a lot of old queued articles have gone out. I would recommend strongly that the next C news patch have an (optional) means of discarding news that is too old. If I recall the "news need not be slow" paper, this function was in an early version of C news, but was discarded for performance reasons. -- Msen Edward Vielmetti /|--- moderator, comp.archives emv@msen.com