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From: joel@gould9.UUCP (Joel West)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: To all the saviors of USENET
Message-ID: <182@gould9.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-Nov-85 11:04:12 EST
Article-I.D.: gould9.182
Posted: Thu Nov 14 11:04:12 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 15-Nov-85 05:30:57 EST
References: <128@bsdpkh.UUCP> <343@dolqci.UUCP>
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Organization: CACI, Inc. -- La Jolla, Calif.
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Summary: check expiration policy

In article <343@dolqci.UUCP>, mike@dolqci.UUCP (Mike Stalnaker) writes:
> 
> >Try these two commands on your machine:
> 
> >wc $USENET/net/news/[0-9]*
> >	and
> >wc $USENET/net/sources/mac/[0-9]*
> 
> >If you are like me, you'll find the programs in sources/mac worth the
> >10% difference in size than all the BULLSHIT in net/news.
> >
> >				Rick Kimball
> 
> 	Rick; where on earth did you get your numbers? I just ran the
> two wc commands and came up with: 181226 bytes for net/news and 284969
> for net/sources/mac.  Seems like your 10% difference in size is bullshit
> to me, not net/news.

Mike's numbers, I daresay, are the accurate ones.

Many sites have a policy to expire net.sources and mod.sources more
slowly than other newsgroups.  That could be what happened at
bsdpkh.UUCP.  Alternately, Rick might have missed the files in
the subdirectories of net.news, such as the net.news.group flamage.
-- 
	Joel West	 	(619) 457-9681
	CACI, Inc. Federal, 3344 N. Torrey Pines Ct., La Jolla, CA  92037
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