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From: scott@dtscp1.UUCP (Scott Barman)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: News volume and duplicates
Message-ID: <667@dtscp1.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 89 17:35:56 GMT
Organization: Digital Transmission Systems (a subsidiary of DCA), Duluth, GA
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A couple of questions:

	Did news volume increase drastically the last couple of weeks?
I only ask this because I used to not have much problems leaving space
in my spool directory with a 3-day expiration, but now, with a one-day-
since-arrival expiration (a stop gap measure until I can change the size
of the spool partition), I run out of room almost daily!  We do not
get talk or alt and this is a 45 Mb partition!

	I have noticed a number of duplicates floating through here.  I
thought that the news software was supposed to take care of that.  We
do keep the database info here for sometime (21 days I think I specify
on expire), but I have noticed a number of back-to-back duplicates.  Can
someone give me a clue as to how I can track down where the problem is?

Are there problems others know about?

If I reconfigure this disk, I can change the partition size to 60Mb and
still leave room for real work.  Besides the short expiration times (which
I would rather have at 3 days), is there something else I can do?

Help!!!

-- 
scott barman
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