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- From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
- Subject: [news.sysadmin, et al.] Re: a.b.p.e. distribution (was, Re: Does USENET condone CHILD
- Message-ID: <BxGvt5.n19@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 21:03:05 GMT
- Followup-To: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,news.sysadmin,news.admin,news.admin.policy,alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.d
- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- Lines: 56
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- [A repost - Carl]
-
- From: kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron)
- Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.admin,news.admin.policy,alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.d
- Subject: Re: a.b.p.e. distribution (was, Re: Does USENET condone CHILD
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.145214.19489@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 19:52:13 GMT
-
- josh@cqs.washington.edu (Josh Hayes) writes:
-
- >Now, I suspect that reasons 1 and 2 as given in my previous post
- >are what really drove this decision, but maybe not. Hard to believe
- >that they couldn't just have put a pretty quick expire time on the
- >a.b.p. groups and let it go, but I guess they didn't want to.
-
- A quick "du" of alt/binaries here (1k per block):
-
- 90 alt/binaries/sounds/misc
- 1 alt/binaries/sounds/erotica
- 169 alt/binaries/sounds/d
- 261 alt/binaries/sounds
- 10 alt/binaries/pictures/utilities
- 10 alt/binaries/pictures/tasteless
- 5367 alt/binaries/pictures/misc
- 5 alt/binaries/pictures/fractals
- 1 alt/binaries/pictures/fine-art/graphics
- 1 alt/binaries/pictures/fine-art/digitized
- 1 alt/binaries/pictures/fine-art/d
- 4 alt/binaries/pictures/fine-art
- 1 alt/binaries/pictures/erotica/male
- 1 alt/binaries/pictures/erotica/female
- 274 alt/binaries/pictures/erotica/d
- 1 alt/binaries/pictures/erotica/blondes
- 6697 alt/binaries/pictures/erotica
- 57 alt/binaries/pictures/d
- 12151 alt/binaries/pictures
- 1 alt/binaries/multimedia
- 12414 alt/binaries
-
- This is on a monday with a two-day expiry time. Volume is always lower
- after a weekend; that last number could easily hit 20 megs by friday.
- (Not to mention the occasional volume surges. It's quite common to
- receive over 5 megs in a.b.p.e in one day.)
-
- There are whole hierarchies with less volume than
- alt.binaries.pictures; misc for example only has 17 megs at the moment,
- and we keep that for seven days (some of the groups for longer).
-
- Don't judge your news admin until you've walked a mile in his shoes...
- --
- Kenneth Herron kherron@ms.uky.edu
- University of Kentucky +1 606 257 2975
- Dept. of Mathematics "Your ball goes over them, it sails off the edge into
- a huge cauldren of fire-breathing dragons." "And they call this a par three?"
- --
- Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
-