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 cp