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 mu.* 180 days 120 days all others 3 days 3 days It is hoped these reduced retention times will help ease the disk space problems the NetNews server is experiencing, thus keeping interruptions to NetNews service at a minimum. Some clients may have received error messages over the weekend when they attempted to post to various newsgroups. These error messages would have referred to disk or spool space being "full." These error messages (on both centrally managed, multi-user systems, MiamiU and MiaVX1) referred to the NetNews server's disk and spool space, not that of individual users. Miami Computing & Information Services (MCIS) regrets any inconvenience these problems may have caused our clients throughout the University. -- John B Harlan Campus Wide Information Systems (CWIS) Coordinator Miami University 137 Hoyt Hall Oxford, Ohio 45056-1618 USA http://WWW.MUOhio.Edu/~CoorCWIS/ (513) 529-5330 voice (513) 529-1496 fax [log in to unmask]