In article <1996Mar11.102236@miavx1>, [log in to unmask] (CWIS Coordinator)
 writes:
>
>      Miami University's Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) server,
> NNTP.MUOhio.Edu (a/k/a Rose), experienced problems this past weekend,
> 9-10 March (Saturday-Sunday), when it ran out of disk space repeatedly.
>
>      As a result of the ever increasing volume of NetNews traffic
> (especially in the alt.* hieracrchy) and a finite amount of disk space
> to accommodate that traffic, retention times have been adjusted as
> follows:
>
>      NetNews hierarchy          Retention was:       Retention is:
>
>      alt.*                        3 days              24 hours
                                                        ^^^^^^^^
 
        Do you think this is fair?  If you look at the alt.* hierarchy, you'll
find that 80% of the traffic by raw meggage comes from alt.binaries.* not alt.*
itself.  I really think it would be fairer to make alt.binaries.* 24 hours and
the rest of alt.* 72 hours.
        This is going to make it near impossible for regular readers of the
alt.* hierarchy to keep up with their groups or participate in anyway with
 
>                                 John B Harlan
>              Campus Wide Information Systems (CWIS) Coordinator
 
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