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From: jmdoyle@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jennifer Mary Doyle)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: junk ->/dev/null
Message-ID: <7050@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 14 Mar 89 00:54:07 GMT
References: <1075@bnlux0.bnl.gov>
Reply-To: jmdoyle@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jennifer Mary Doyle)
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In article <1075@bnlux0.bnl.gov> abrams@bnlux0.UUCP (The Ancient Programmer) wr
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>	I'm news administrator at a site with limited disk space, and
>I would like to know if there are good reasons for not making the junk
>directory a link to /dev/null.  Will this have any other repercussions
>besides loosing all of the junked articles?

Where I am (Princeton University), junk is a catchall newsgroup. Local posts
about conferences/speakers show up there. Recently, articles for newly created
groups have shown up there, too. Ex.: Before rec.music.dementia, soc.couples,
and soc.culture.turkish all became groups locally, articles posted to them
from elsewhere showed up in junk. This allowed one to keep up with the groups
until the newgroup took effect.

Jen
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