Re: How is Yarn Really used?

From: Dirk A. Loedding (judge@america.net)
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 11:05:26 -0500

rsteiner@skypoint.com (Richard Steiner) wrote:

>But I generally don't delete the news after reading on the Yarn side.
>Instead, I use "expire -o" to let the messages slowly time out, which
>lets me reference things from past threads for a few days afterwards.

This is what I do. Though I'm told I need to run expire more frequently
than I do. I find it useful to keep past threads sitting around for a
while, as well.

>On the Yarn side, my spool isn't that big -- about 22MB right now, of
>which 9MB or so is currently slack.

Mine is about 30 MB, with about 22MB of slack. *sigh*

>I also have eight mailing lists set up as pseudo newsgroups under Yarn,
>although this is the only one that I post to (the rest are newsletter
>or technology news tidbit lists, and aren't interactive).

I have a number of mailing lists as well, and I post to several of them.

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