Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!rutgers!bellcore!faline!ulysses!terminus!nyssa
From: nyssa@terminus.UUCP (The Prime Minister)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: How long are you keeping news these days?
Message-ID: <2323@terminus.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 88 12:03:02 GMT
References: <3899@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: nyssa@terminus.UUCP (The Graveyard)
Organization: Terminus
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I administer news on two machines, terminus and rolls.  Terminus 
only receives a subset of newsgroups, which are kept for 7 days.
The exceptions are:  junk is eliminated after a day, articles
crossposted to alt.* or talk.* are eliminated after three days,
and rec.arts.drwho is expired after 1 day, but the expire is run
monthly.

Rolls gets everything.  alt.* and talk.* are expired after 3
days, soc.* after 4.  Everything else is after 7 days.

In both cases, we allow the Expire header to override our expire
command.
-- 
James C. Armstrong, Jnr.	(nicmad,ulysses,ihnp4)!terminus!nyssa