"Martin Hotze" wrote in message
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so every K you post adds up to thousand K, and every megabyte adds up to
1000
megabytes.

This is silly. There is SO much capacity that whether we diligently trim or
not is inconsequential. A 200 *GIGA*byte drive is now $80. Retail. Let's
see now... the post referenced might possibly by 1k byte, so now the cost
per newsgroup server for this eggregious act of non-trimming would be a
whopping $0.0000004, or anotherwords, it would take 25,000 untrimmed
messages of that size to fill up 1 cent of disk capacity per server.