Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!jeff
From: jeff@gatech.edu (Jeff Lee)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: How long are you keeping news these days?
Message-ID: <16923@gatech.edu>
Date: 6 Jan 88 17:04:39 GMT
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Reply-To: jeff@gatech.UUCP (Jeff Lee)
Organization: School of Information and Computer Science, Georgia Tech, Atlanta
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We expire junk and control in 5 days and the talk and binary groups
get expired  in 10. Everything else (right now) is being expired in
17 days. This is after the christmas break, though. When everyone
gets started posting again I expect to have to shorten the timeout to
about 2 weeks. We run the lib portion out of /usr but our UUCP queues
are on the same partition (a "g" partition on a CDC 9766 drive, ~67Mb).

As late as the beginning of last summer, we were able to keep almost
everything around for 3 weeks (with room to spare). Now I time out
news so as to keep about 6-10 meg spare for the UUCP traffic. This is
sometimes as little as 12 days.
-- 
Jeff Lee
Internet:	jeff@gatech.edu
UUCP:		...!{decvax,hplabs,ihnp4,linus,rutgers}!gatech!jeff