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In <3arqd6$4cm@usenety1.news.prodigy.com> davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) writes:

>Unless you have a need to carry everything, why bother? And even if you
>do, a simple 1GB drive will handle 5-7 days news. Of course if you run

Uhhh, no, actually.  We just (as in last night) switched our news disk
from a 1.6GB drive to a 4.0GB one.  We'd had to cut retention on alt and
talk down to 4 days and the others to 6.  

Of course if you're talking "without alt.binaries.whatever" then I agree
that your number is closer to the mark.  But don't underestimate the
effect that CompuServe, AOL, and Prodigy are having as well as all the
local providers springing up ...

>What on earth are you running for software? I run about 100MB a day
>through my office 486, and the load is virtually invisible.

INN is terrific for UNIX systems.  We'd been looking at getting a
satellite feed back when we had only a 56K to alleviate the load on our
network connection but were afraid it wouldn't very well with INN.  We
were also concerned about fast the PageSat feed was - if it was fairly
up-to-date a backup NNTP feed would make sense because the duplicated
articles would just be dropped and wouldn't come over the wire.  But if 
the PageSat stuff was slow, you'd still have all that traffic coming.

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