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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:25:11 -0700 To: "David Cornwell" <dc000741@hotmail.com>, svlug@lists.svlug.org From: Deirdre Saoirse Moen <deirdre@deirdre.net> Subject: News sucking was Re: [svlug] Adding hardrive advice .,. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: svlug-admin@lists.svlug.org Precedence: bulk List-Help: <mailto:svlug-request@lists.svlug.org?subject=help> List-Post: <mailto:svlug@lists.svlug.org> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.svlug.org/mailman/listinfo/svlug>, <mailto:svlug-request@lists.svlug.org?subject=subscribe> List-Id: discussion list for the Silicon Valley Linux Users Group. <svlug.lists.svlug.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.svlug.org/mailman/listinfo/svlug>, <mailto:svlug-request@lists.svlug.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.svlug.org/pipermail/svlug/> At 10:42 AM -0400 7/10/01, David Cornwell wrote: >I want to add a 30-40 gb disk. No SCSI, to expensive and it's not >needed. I want to add life to this box so I can read and save my >large mailing list archives, use slrnspool to suck down and store >news. I need space in other words. All I want to upgrade is the disk >storage. On the news front, might I suggest leafnode instead? It's designed to handle as many groups as you'd like and you can completely control the expire times, etc. It works fine for my connection to several news servers too. http://www.leafnode.org/ -- _Deirdre Stash-o-Matic: http://weirdre.com http://deirdre.net "Cannot run out of time.... Is infinite time. You... are finite.... Zathrus... is finite. This... is wrong tool!" -- Zathrus