[3610] in SIPB bug reports
netnews addition request
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yandros@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Tue Mar 23 16:57:37 1993
From: yandros@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 93 16:57:07 -0500
To: katiel@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU, usenet@Athena.MIT.EDU, mroberts@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Katie Livingston's message of Tue, 23 Mar 93 09:57:49 EST <9303231457.AA16114@wimsey>
Hello there, Katie!
This person did indeed send this message to usenet@mit.edu, which is
the right place, but I hadn't gotten back to him yet because I haven't
had a chance to find out exactly how big the fr.* groups are... Right
we don't have room for another feed without cutting other things down,
since our new news server, although faster, has a little *less* disk
space than our old one, and we've already added several new
heirarchies. There's been talk of us getting a new disk, but there
was a theft from DCNS a while ago and we still haven't recieved a disk
we need for the sipb locker that we thought we were going to get in
January... :-(
In any case, I'm going to try to find out how big the fr.* heirarchy
is and see if I can squeeze the space out of our current disk, but
it's closer to full now than I like (~97%) so we'll likely have to cut
back something even if it's a small feed, and if it's a large one, it
may have to wait until we can find more space somewhere...
So, important things I need to know from *someone*:
o How big is the fr.* feed? (i.e. how many groups with how much
traffic?)
o How many people at MIT are really interested; that is, would really
use it?
o Of those people, how many would want a full feed? I ask this
because right now we get things like de.binaries.*, which I imagine
is almost never used.. (binary feeds are usually heavy loads
space-wise)
o Are we going to get a [-nother|bigger] disk for the news reader
anytime in the near future?
Obviously, you can't answer all of these, but now at least you know
what we're waiting for...
Chad
P.S. please remove <bug-sipb> from any replies, as that's the wrong
place for this discussion...
