🚀 go-pugleaf

The following announcement will affect all users of the Demon News
Service.

In recent weeks we have become increasingly concerned at the ever-
escalating volume of binary information being posted to the newsgroups
and in particular that posted to the warez groups.

The current situation is that over 75% of our news server disk space is
occupied with articles in the binaries and warez hierarchies.

It is thus obvious that our current policy of treating such groups
in the same manner as all other groups is no longer workable as it is
simply eating ever increasing amounts of disk and processor to the
benefit of only a minority of customers.

Therefore with immediate effect we are changing the policy of expiry
of news as follows:

   *warez*          2 days
   alt.binaries.*   5 days

We trust that the continued availability of these groups, though for
a shorter period of time is a compromise that will be acceptable to
our customers.

We would be interested to hear from any of our users who wish to
express their views on the above. Please email comment@demon.net.
Please note that all comments made will be read and considered,
however individual acknowledgments / replies may not be made.

Malcolm Muir
Demon Internet

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Malcolm S. Muir                                Demon Internet Ltd.
Sunderland                                     322 Regents Park Road
England                                        London N3 2QQ