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From: oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Newsgroups: tor.news,ont.uucp
Subject: Re: news
Keywords: news, flood, alarm
Message-ID: <314@yunexus.UUCP>
Date: 7 Feb 88 21:56:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: yunexus.314
Posted: Sun Feb  7 16:56:35 1988
References: <8802050452.AA03771@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Distribution: ont
Organization: York U. Computing Services - Magic Group
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In article <8802050452.AA03771@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> molnar@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Tom Molnar) writes:
>
>The amount of news flowing through utgpu has finally caught my attention.
>News is eating up my /spool partition at an alarming rate.  During the
>past 12 days, we've had about 45 megabytes of news traffic go through this
>site.
	I think the full-news-feed sites (including us) have a problem.
	The news traffic increase geoff predicted appears to be right on
	the money. I have no idea how to deal with this. Couple of days
	ago, I had to do an emergency expire (7-day) on misc,talk,soc,rec
	in order to get some inodes back. We use the default 15-day expiry
	scheme, but I do not know if this can go on for long. Current
	holdings of my spool area is as follows:
		
	1036	alt		60	bionet		84	can
	30434	comp		2708	misc		2	na
	1205	news		118	ont		12637	rec
	1730	sci		3381	soc		2628	talk
	12	to		404	tor		55	ut
		
	I think this adds up to over 50 megs, excluding 7 days worth I
	zapped couple of days ago. Of course, this is half the story,
	considering the amount of "saved" news by the readers.

	So, we get telebits, use C-news for faster processing, and when
	the monies are available, buy larger disks, just so that we can
	keep and pass around news ??!! Somehow, this doesn't sound right.
	A while ago, I have mentioned a "subscription" based news
	delivery, and I am trying to put down the specifics of an
	implementation, as a minor "fix" to the increasing load (of
	unread articles) problem. But in general, I have no idea where
	all of this will end up. And all the while, someone out there is
	paying major phone bills.

oz
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