In article <920604105803.21e01083 at ntet.nctr.fda.gov>, WMELCHIOR at NTET.NCTR.FDA.GOV (Bill Melchior, NCTR/FDA) writes:
|> We currently have few Internet users on-site, so the powers-that-be feel that
|> e-mail for the few of us would use less space than the feed. I'd appreciate
|> some feedback: 1) What kind of expiration periods are common? 2) How much disk
|> space is used by a typical usenet site? (I assume we'd not be subscribing to
Expiration here - a biologically oriented site on a Silicon Graphics -
no. archiving
of days
# override later defaults for some groups of note
bionet.molbio.genbank.updates x 1 @
embnet,bionet.software x 60 @
bionet x 30 @
comp.sys.sgi x 21 -
# big non-tech groups held long enough for a long weekend
news u 7 -
# real noise gets thrown away fast
news.groups x 2 -
junk,tor.news.stats x 2 -
unibas.sequence.full x 2 -
# throw away some technical stuff not worth archiving
comp x 7 -
# default: 5 days and no archive
all x 5 -
i
The NEWS disk reserved is about 400MByte, including some
Archives and scratch space for processing.
We keep comp,news,sci,bionet,eunet, and
embnet (the new NEWS hierarchy for molecular biology in Europe),
and unibas (the local university hierarchy), and ch (the
national news hierarcy).
disk space used here with these numbers, in 1024 Byte blocks
97 bionet/announce
74 bionet/biology
408 bionet/general
91 bionet/genome
603 bionet/info-theory
107 bionet/jobs
395 bionet/journals
4407 bionet/molbio
76 bionet/neuroscience
21 bionet/population-bio
789 bionet/sci-resources
1051 bionet/software
38 bionet/users
15 bionet/xtallography
96 bionet/plants
The total is (again, in 1024 K blocks),
2271 archive
8265 bionet
3 ch
75287 comp
282 control
164 embnet
3 in.coming
33 junk
7136 news
13 out.going
13358 sci
1282 unibas
Maybe this helps.
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