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Tim Williams wrote:
"DoN. Nichols" wrote in message
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I have a very limited feed (only the
newsgroups which I want, or a couple of friends want), and as a result,
I can set the expire time for mine to 28 days.

Another nice thing about my connection. Supernews carries some 40k groups
(was 33k or so last time I downloaded the list, IIRC) and even on binaries,
retention is like...*months*.

Supernews (and some others like Google) are exceptions, as they make
money off their news server, so that can be plowed back into more disk
space. :-)

In many cases, the news server is a bonus from the ISP, or from
the employer, and has to live within a very limited budget.

Enjoy,
DoN.
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