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In article <4hmobn$3i7@steel.interlog.com> gandalf@gold.interlog.com (Todd Showalter) writes:
>From: gandalf@gold.interlog.com (Todd Showalter)
>Subject: Re: bincancel:33 binaries:AR198:@@NCM
>Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 16:29:04 GMT

>mshear@idirect.com (Michael Shear) summoned a news daemon to say:

>>I don't know why people keep compaining in this group about binary postings. 
>>If you don't open the post that is usually claearly marked then you don't have 
>>to worry about using your time to view it. This is the only group I 
>>consistantly see people complaining about uploads. 

>    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.

>    That Tenchi post was 8 parts, each of which was about 900 lines if
>I recall right.  If you figure that the average post (condensed to the
>amount of space it actually takes) is about 15 lines, you are looking
>at 60 x 8 = ~480 messages that got tossed early from the newsserver to
>make space for the new binary.

>    There are 34 binaries groups associated with RAA.

>alt.binaries.pictures.anime
>alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.anime
>alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.anime

>    These can be used for binaries without problems.

>                                                                                
>        Todd.

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>/ Todd Showalter       / LAND ROVER ATTACK!                                   /
>/ gandalf@interlog.com /                   - NATSUME Kyusaku                  /
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Ok......thanks for the explanation although are you sure that is what actually 
happens?  I was always under the impression that news was time removed and not 
space removed. For example some of the newsroups I subscribe to, if I don't go 
in for a while I can  literally load 1500 messages. 

Additionally, as I'm writing this if you look at the volume in this group, 
even with binaries they would never equal that kind of volume.