Weekends have been a very heavy load in recent months and have added
to existing system strains.  This weekend will be no different.  Our
shipments are coming in phases and we are working diligently on
installing and bringing our new hardware online.   However, all of our
needed new equipment will not be here and online by this evening.

To prepare for the weekend's heavy load and in attempts to limit
system wide problems, we have decided to limit retention to 175 days.
This will affect Plus and Big Gig accounts.  We are doing this in
order to free up space on our file servers so they may absorb the
backlog of autounrars that are being processed and placed on our
servers.  We are working to evenly distribute these files and to
ensure that users are able to connect, download and not have a
degraded experience during these high peak times.

The majority of these files should still be available via our Beta
NNTP servers as we've been quietly raising the Beta NNTP retention. We
appreciate everyone's understanding.

If you have any questions, please let us know.

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