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aki@mel.toshiba.CO.JP (Yoshiaki Kohno) writes:

>I'm sorry following quotation from my previous posting might have
>caused some misunderstanding.

> >By the way, though the topic of this thread may be suitable to
> >soc.culture.japan or whatever in soc, I have no access to soc
> >newsgroups. Therefore, I support life-in-japan NG. 

[* comments by davidg@aegis.or.jp & kenji@tom.astem.or.jp omitted *]

>The reason my site does not subscribe to the regular USENET newsgroups
>is just because we don't have enough disk space to hold all the
>articles.  

Yes, they can certainly add up. Aegis is subscribed to 500+ newsgroups
(including all of fj.) and it takes about 160 MB. 

>Our parent domain toshiba.co.jp is a member of InetClub and subscribes
>at least most of the major newsgroups in USENET including soc-domain.  

Via InetClub? ? ? I hope not, that could cost a lot!

>So, the problem is just finding more disk space in our local site and
>find someone who take care of the news maintenance. But, you know, we
>are using company's facility, and are supposed to do our assigned
>jobs :-)

I find it a bit curious that Toshiaba doesn't have enough disk
space.  I just added two 660 MB hard disks to Aegis and they only
cost $1099 each. Not so much. How many people read the news? And
what kind of hardware are you running on? 

And I guess it's not anybody's job to keep track of what's going on
in the world :-)

>I wonder how many of local sites in co.jp subscribe all the USENET
>domains. For example, my site does comp and gnu.

I'd be interested in knowing that too. I believe the other public
access site, twics.co.jp, is subscribed to many more than Aegis
(everything at it's feed site, I believe).

Dave

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