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On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 06:45:56 +0100, (akula) <akula@sharks.plc.ltd> wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:18:53 +0000 (UTC), Chris Caputo
> <ccaputo@alt.net> wrote:
>
>> "Peter Hucker" <no@spam.com> writes:
>>> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 03:36:29 +0100,  wrote:
>>>> "Peter Hucker" <no@spam.com>, took a moment to utter:
>>>>> Binaries are 56 days, except multipart which is 5 days.
>>>>>
>>>>> Text is 56 days and increasing to an estimated 2 years.
>>>>>
>>>> Just to divert to something on topic for a mo'..are those estimates going
>>>> to hold for text in binary Groups, ya think?
>>>> Most all I have run across dump the text with the binary posts, same
>>>> timeline.
>>>
>>> I would think so: I've noticed articles expiring at different times in
>>> the same group.
>>
>> Correct.  Our expiration times are not based on group name, but rather are
>> based on article type (text/binary/size/# of parts).  For example, a text
>> message posted to alt.binaries.x will last as long as a text message
>> posted to alt.test.
>
> Did you ever stop to think just how stupid that is?  IF your servers
> ever attain two years text retention, that means that if one were to
> download headers from, say, alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc.0-day two years
> from now, they would see a million REQ: dating back up to two
> years...just as an example.  Who the frig wants to waddle through all
> those expired text posts?
>
> I guess people have come to expect such moronic reasoning from you,
> Chris.  That's just one of many reasons why your NSP is third-rate.

There are groups containing both chat and images.  Why remove the chat before necessary?

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