Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!ames!pacbell!att!mcdchg!mcdhup!mergvax!lilink.com!upaya!tbetz From: tbetz@upaya.lilink.COM (Tom Betz) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: old news Summary: Who's disk is biggest? ;^) Message-ID: <977@upaya.lilink.COM> Date: 22 Feb 90 06:38:30 GMT References: <50943@sgi.sgi.com> <13956@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <1990Feb19.160606.9002@druid.uucp> Reply-To: tbetz@upaya.lilink.COM (Tom Betz) Organization: Greyston Business Services Lines: 43 Quoth darcy@druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) in <1990Feb19.160606.9002@druid.uucp>: |In article <13956@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> (Jim Kelly) writes: |>John Eisenman: |>>How can I access older news articles that have expired at my site? |> |>Christopher Davis: |>>There isn't a way to look through expired articles on most groups. |> |>I've wondered about this question for two years, and this is the |>answer I was expecting. Why does the news take pains to give articles |>unique ID numbers and keep a "References:" line if the articles can't |>be retrieved? |> |Actually you can generally archive them yourself on your own system but |better have plenty of disk space. Those messages have to be kept somewhere |if you are going to retrieve them. News programs are specifically written |to allow expiry of articles so that you don't choke your memory. Consider |that news is sending 3 to 8 megabytes a day to your system. This leads me to ask a question I've been wondering about for some time. What site participating in the Usenet has the longest expiration / biggest /usr/spool/news disk? Could those who think they might be contenders please email me with the appropriate statistics and I'll compile a list of the top ten or twenty or so and post it here... or if someone (like uunet) has such a list already compiled, could you please mail it to me? I'd be very interested to see if anyone is keeping messages longer than the Expires: field calls for. It I have infinite space someday, I'd like to keep several years' worth of news around. Just for the heck of it... -- "I don't run - I tend to black my eyes." - D.Parton | hombre!marob!upaya!tbetz ----------------------------------------------------| tbetz@upaya.lilink.com "One minute I'm in the pasture porkin' ponies, | Tom Betz - GBS the next I'm a can of Mighty Dog!" - Secretariat | (914) 375-1510