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From: rbl@nitrex.UUCP ( Dr. Robin Lake )
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Administering a News system part time
Message-ID: <560@nitrex.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Oct-87 15:15:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: nitrex.560
Posted: Wed Oct 21 15:15:31 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 24-Oct-87 16:00:12 EDT
References: <273@arnold.UUCP> <7540@e.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: rbl@nitrex.UUCP ( Dr. Robin Lake )
Organization: The Standard Oil Co., Cleveland
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In article <7540@e.ms.uky.edu> david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack) writes:
>In article <273@arnold.UUCP> dave@arnold.UUCP (Dave Arnold) writes:
>>Like I said, the hardware will be a Convergent Technologies Megaframe running
>>CTIX, with about 80meg of disk space (probably 20-40meg free), and a 1200 baud
>>modem, a telebit trailblazer looks good for the future.  There are about 100
>>employee's who will be potential News readers/posters, most of them
>>programmers.

We've got about 12 users on a MegaFrame with CTIX and about the same disk space.
With a newsfeed that is often irregular, most of the administrator's time
is solving the problems incurred when running out of disk space due to the
volume of incoming news.  Yes, we're getting more disks, but that is another
story....

If your newsfeed goes down, if your users tend to save a lot of interesting
source or binhex'ed articles, if you ever really run a lot of data on the
machine  ---  you better have a node to uucp archived or cpio'ed files onto!

-- 
Rob Lake
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