Xref: utzoo news.sysadmin:3697 news.software.b:7686 comp.unix.aix:4947
Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!caen!dali.cs.montana.edu!milton!sumax!halcyon!ralphs
From: halcyon!ralphs@seattleu.edu (Ralph Sims)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.software.b,comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: IBM RS/6000 unsuitable for news
Message-ID: <i03k25w164w@halcyon.uucp>
Date: 7 May 91 15:52:05 GMT
References: <b512cc.2h6@wang.com>
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
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fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) writes:

> It helps a lot to throttle back the expiration time of talk.*, alt.flame,
> etc., since the median article size for those groups is lower than the
> median article size for comp.* and news.*.

I'm not sure how *nix figures this kind of thing, but a check of the
size of the average news post (based on 10,000 messages online) is
~3K.  This is on my MS-DOS system with an almost-full feed.

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