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In article <4hmobn$3i7@steel.interlog.com>,
Todd Showalter <gandalf@gold.interlog.com> wrote:
>    The thing is, each newsgroup is allotted a certain amount of space
>on the newsserver.  Old news gets deleted to make space for new news
>automatically.  This means that when a binary comes in to a discussion
>group, newsservers wind up killing a lot of older articles to make
>space for the binary, which is usually huge.

Before trying to explain how news works, please take some time to learn
how news works.

There are several different news systems in use, and the only one that
I know of that is even CLOSE to your attempt at describing how things
work is Waffle. You aren'y really even close there, however, since
Waffle expires news based on article COUNT and not volume. I.e., each
group gets an admin-specified number of articles retained. If that
number is 100, and each of the articles is 1k, the group takes 100k. If
each is 1Mb, then the group gets 100Mb.

Most of the rest of the news systems retain news based on TIME, so
articles are removed when they are older than a certain number of days.
If 1000 articles all come in on day X, all 1000 are removed on day
X+n. The only size limit on groups is the size of the disk, for most
sites.

>    There are 34 binaries groups associated with RAA.
>
>alt.binaries.pictures.anime
>alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.anime
>alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.anime

And the other 31 are?