Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ukma!david
From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: news software speedup
Message-ID: <8741@e.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 30 Mar 88 23:51:29 GMT
References: <649@bms-at.UUCP> <10150@ncc.UUCP> <4246@hoptoad.uucp> <10128@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com> <4265@hoptoad.uucp> <2090@ho95e.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
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In article <2090@ho95e.ATT.COM> wcs@ho95e.UUCP (46323-Bill.Stewart.<ho95c>,2G218,x0705,) writes:
>Is it really necessary to retain message-IDs past about 14 days?  The
>news.lists postings indicate 99% of everything reaches uunet in 5 days;
>surely there aren't too many 15-day-long loops any more?  Probably better
>to keep the expire time down and tolerate the <.1% duplication load.
>(Admittedly, one reason there aren't many delay loops is that the
>backbone machines probably keep a lot of history.)  For ho95e, the
>retention limit is forced on us by ulimit; we get history file overflows
>if we keep records longer than 11 days, and VOLUME is up.

I had the chance recently to be looking closely at what news was
coming through the system and saw "quite a bit" of stuff which was
over a month old.
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