IBM RS/6000 unsuitable for news

[Ralph Sims]

fitz at wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) writes:

> It helps a lot to throttle back the expiration time of talk.*, alt.flame,
> etc., since the median article size for those groups is lower than the
> median article size for comp.* and news.*.

I'm not sure how *nix figures this kind of thing, but a check of the
size of the average news post (based on 10,000 messages online) is
~3K.  This is on my MS-DOS system with an almost-full feed.

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