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From: mcurry@fred.net ( )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How much disk space for a full feed !!!!
Date: 20 Feb 1997 15:20:47 GMT
Organization: FredNet - Frederick, Md.
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That's normal.  You may want to filter out newsgroups for which you have
no local interest.

Raul Zighelboim (mango@communique.,net) wrote:
: 
: This FS is almost 2 days old, actually, it has been receiving articles for
: 35 hours:
: 
: # df
: Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
: /dev/ccd0c   25751491 10622687 13068685    45%    /var/news/spool/articles
: 
: ie, under 2 days, 10 GIGABYTES of articles.  Am I missing something or is
: this normal usenet usage ?
: 
: -- 
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: Raul Zighelboim                       mango@communique.net