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- Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!eff!world!geoff
- From: geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer)
- Subject: Re: C news feed restriction not working?!
- Message-ID: <Bs69tA.8v7@world.std.com>
- Organization: Software Tool & Die Netnews Research Center
- References: <1992Jul29.194808.6065@kestrel.edu>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 22:43:58 GMT
- Lines: 17
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- Scott L. Burson:
- >[...] I seem to be getting everything (6Mb arrived this morning). I
- >can't afford either the phone bill or the disk space for a full feed.
- >Does anyone have any guesses as to the problem? The sys file line on
- >kestrel reads:
-
- Assuming that the sys file entry for zetasoft really is a single line (it
- appeared in your message as two lines), it looks fine. (Note that you
- can continue sys file lines; see newssys(5) for details.)
-
- However, 6MB per day is nothing like a full feed. A full feed averages
- over 35MB per day, with a peak in mid-week (if this is Wednesday, that
- would be 50MB today). Are you actually getting messages on zetasoft
- containing no groups named in (or implied by) the sys entry for zetasoft,
- or have you just picked some high-volume groups?
- --
- Geoff Collyer world.std.com!geoff, uunet.uu.net!geoff
-