[svlug] SVLUG newgroup?

[Rafael Skodlar]

On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Ian Kluft wrote:

> > From: "Harry Souders" <hsouders at calweb.com>
> > Is there a SVLUG newsgroup?
> 
> No.  But there is an sbay.linux newsgroup that covers the South Bay Area.
......
> 
> Well, you're probably in the minority.  Most people can't put up with the
> level of spam on UseNet newsgroups any more.  If you saw all the stuff that
> anti-spammers cancel, you'd puke.  UseNet today is about 45%+ spam,
> 40%+ cancels, and less than 15% other traffic.

Couldn't agree more. No need for yet another newsgroup.

I setup a news server on a PC which caries all (!) news with files that
are less than 70k and see what I get:

/dev/hdc1            7909568 2292077  5207434     31%   /var/spool/news
/dev/hdd1            7912497 2857019  4645274     38%
/var/spool/news/alt/binaries

  3:43pm  up 11 days,  4:35,  0 users,  load average: 4.49, 4.32, 4.28

Expiration time I use is less than a week for alt.binaries and about 2
weeks for the rest.

I rarely read news groups anymore with the exception of linux related
stuff and occasionaly one soc.culture which is not much more than blaming
each other for that or the other political problem in the world. 

> -- 
> Ian Kluft  KO6YQ PP-ASEL                                  Cisco Systems, Inc.
> ikluft at cisco.com (work)  ikluft at thunder.sbay.org (home)          San Jose, CA
> 

   Rafael



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