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Subject: Re: Quantitative Gloom and Doom
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Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 17:26:15 EDT
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Of course, ucbvax runs 4.3 BSD, with (as you noted Jerry) a du that
knows how to count links correctly, so that is not a source of error in
my numbers. Also, there are no sparse files in the netnews spool area,
since everything in there is a contiguous text file.

As to your comments about expire, I have had no problems here. I have a
shell script that looks for netnews articles that are greater than 35
days old which I then check by hand for an Expires: field. To date,
expire has missed on the order of 30 articles in a period of three
months, which is an acceptable error rate for me (since I don't really
want to hack up expire.c).

Don't ask me why we seem to have twice as much netnews online as you
expected. I was merely counting, and reporting the results, because I
think they indicate a trend toward both increasing traffic, and
increasing size of the individual articles.

	Erik E. Fair	ucbvax!fair	fair@ucbarpa.BERKELEY.EDU


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