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From: heiby@cuae2.UUCP (Heiby)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: What newsgroups are *really* needed?
Message-ID: <468@cuae2.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Oct-85 14:37:15 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  2 14:37:15 1985
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Organization: AT&T, /app/eng, Lisle, IL
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In article <996@druky.UUCP> krahl@druky.UUCP (R.H. Krahl) writes:
>Boy David!  This sounds *real* grim.  Do I have this right?...To lower the
>phone bill, you want to do away with groups that either have low volume or
>(in your opinion) low quality????

I think the point that krahl missed is that David posted a list of
newsgroups that were candidates for HIS SITE to stop supporting.  He
is in the process of finding out whether anyone on HIS SITE can make
a case for keeping any of the groups.  I did the exact same thing on
one machine I administer news on a few months ago, cut the disk space
used by about 20%, and the space used is currently higher than it was
before trimming groups that NO ONE ON MY SITE WANTED.  I am administering
news on a smaller machine now, as well.  The machine has a total of
102Meg of disk space and we get very few groups to start with.  Do the
news administrators have the right to stop supporting groups that should
be mailing lists (low volume) or moderated but aren't (low quality)?
You're damn right, we do.  If my users can't get their work done because
netnews is tying up too much disk space, or too many cycles, or too many
hours on the FOUR incoming or ONE outgoing lines on the system, we won't
support ANY groups at all.  Even in some parts of AT&T, the budget
allotment for netnews is ZERO dollars.  If krahl wants to pass around
a lot of crap with his cycles and dialers, fine.   I'll pass, thank you.
-- 
Ron Heiby {NAC|ihnp4}!cuae2!heiby   Moderator: mod.newprod & mod.unix
AT&T-IS, /app/eng, Lisle, IL	(312) 810-6109
"No; my legs are written in a functional programming language." (J. McKie)


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