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From: ntm1569@dsacg3.UUCP (Jeff Roth)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: How long are you keeping news these days?
Message-ID: <546@dsacg3.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 88 18:40:20 GMT
References: <3899@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: Defense Logistics Agency Systems Automation Center, Columbus
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in article <3899@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, karl@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu 
(Karl Kleinpaste) asks:
  
> ...  How long do you keep news?  What policies do you keep for
> expiring some groups fast and other groups slowly?  How much space do
> you allow for Usenet?  How full do you let it get?  We have a 30Mb
> partition that runs 60-70% full most of the time.

We keep comp, news, misc and our local groups two weeks, archive sources
and comp.bugs.4bsd, and expire soc, rec, etc. after 5 days. We are using
around 95Mb partition which stays around 50-60 percent full, with a
higher percentage of inodes used.
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Jeff Roth               {uunet!gould,cbosgd!osu-cis}!dsacg1!jroth 
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