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- From: bcapps@agora.rain.com (Brent Capps)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: soc.motss.*
- Message-ID: <Bzo43E.2Br@agora.rain.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 15:52:25 GMT
- Article-I.D.: agora.Bzo43E.2Br
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- Furr@cup.portal.com (George Dalton Madison) writes:
- >This is "literally" erroneous. Unless Portal is missing over
- >half the traffic on soc.motss on an ongoing, daily basis, it's
- >definitely not "thousands per day." *Hundreds*, yes.
-
- Depends on how bursty your feed is. On agora sometimes the feed gets
- blocked upstream, and we'll go a few days with nothing, zilch. Then
- the dam breaks and we will literally have over a thousand
- messages to deal with in soc.motss. One time I was behind by *4000*
- messages and just had to mark them all read. At the moment Alan has
- the expiration set to two days to keep agora from being overwhelmed by
- a week's worth of blocked news that was headed down the feed in
- our direction. Right now I'm *only* 400 messages behind, but only
- because the older messages were expired before I had a chance to
- read them.
-
- Anyway, for the record I like the idea of an automated delete-o-clayton/
- crosspost filter, and the newsgroup should be split. I do not like
- changing the name from motss to lesbigay or queer. I see no reason
- to give the 'phobes any assistance in finding us -- try reading a.p.h
- for a while to see what that will turn into. True, some people just
- coming out may have to hunt for us for a while, but sooner or later
- somebody they know will clue them in.
-
- --
- Brent Capps | "It's just a phase you're going
- bcapps@agora.rain.com (gay stuff) | through. Last year it was
- bcapps@atlastele.com (telecom stuff) | miniature golf."
-