why expire anything?  why not put up a collection plate to buy like a
40GB hard drive or something?  i hope that in the manual trimming
responses were trimmed before images!

Ken wrote:
> 
> ryan constantine wrote:
> >
> > these newsgroups are archived here so i'm not sure i know what you
> > mean.  the only group that has it's posts deleted as far as i know is
> > the off topic group.
> 
> This group has been manualy trimmed a couple of times becasue of the
> resources it was taking up. The binaries.animations group has likewise
> suffered. The News admin will eventually have to set up these two groups
> with a 1 year auto expire but for the time being is doing so only when
> server resources are strained.
> 
> To the best of my knowledge there is no publically available archive
> of these groups available. I "think" news admin has a back up of the
> server somewhere but I don't know for sure.
> 
> --
> Ken Tyler - ken### [at] tagpovrayorg

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