Re: University of Alaska's USENET feed - comp.os.linux.misc?

[Jim Williams <jim.williams@alaska.edu>]

Time frame for replacement hardware/upgrade of INN is approx 2 months. 
I know this as I'm the guy building & deploying the machine.  At/near
that same time, I'll be looking for better feeds.  When news.alaska.edu
was deployed, gatekeeper.dec.com was one of the top 3 or 4 in the world
and has since dropped waaaay down the list.  If anyone knows of a good
feed (someplace that would be *willing* to exchange feeds, not just a
good archive like dejanews) I'd be interested in hearing about it.  If
at all possible, please include an email contact for the INN admin.

The new machine will have a 50+ Gb spool area and we should be able to
keep almost everything but the binaries groups for about 30 days.  I'm
not sure how long the binaries will stay, probably a week.

fskrh wrote:
> 
> Is it just me or is our newsfeed seriously poor?  It starts to say upwards of
> 14,006 headers for comp.os.linux.misc, then when it actually downloads the
> headers all I get is 73.  Is something wrong with my newsreader?
> 
> Anyone have similar problems with news.alaska.edu?

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Jim Williams
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