i know! 
i carry about 1450 newsgroups (on a vax3600, too!) and aside from losing 
12 gigs of news to a box of disks failing, i do notice it fills up mighty
quick. im going to have to start putting old articles on tape if i want to
keep them around.. 

still, usenet is a lot better than it was a couple years ago. 
isildur

On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On June 26, Lord Isildur wrote:
> > actually usenet has really wuieted down. i started reading news again 
> > about a year ago after several years off of usenet.. 
> > i still dont post except from a news-only account, since your address is 
> > still a sure way to _get_ spammed, though.. 
> 
>   A full Usenet feed is pushing 30-40Mbps and climbing.  Perhaps the
> spam/content ratio has improved a bit, but the byte volume continues
> to increase at a frightening pace.
> 
>          -Dave McGuire
>