jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre) (11/11/86)
Most of you are probably aware that there was an premature posting of newgroup messages for all the proposed newsgroup renamings. This caused many (if not most) sites to exceed the maximum allowed number of newsgroups in their active files. Some sites are still recovering from this problem. It is interesting to note that the volume of news articles for last week was less than half what it was for the previous week. Oct 27 11:48 to Nov 1 23:58 6,755 articles Nov 1 23:59 to Nov 10 15:15 3,102 articles The reduction in volumn gives you some idea of the number of sites that were blown off the air. I know it took me a couple of hours to clean up old newsgroups, recompile news with larger tables, and reprocess the failing batches. (My news daemon renames and saves batches when rnews exits with an error status.) Multiply that times the number of sites on the net and you probably get many thousands of manhours spent cleaning up. Amazing to think how vulnerable the net is to the actions of one individual. Jerry Aguirre Olivetti ATC