The system-to-administrator ratio is commonly used as a rough metric to understand administrative costs in high-scale services. With smaller, less automated services this ratio ca...
: Expect is a tool for automating interactive programs. Expect is controlled by writing Tcl scripts, traditionally a manual process. This paper describes Autoexpect
Usenet volume has been growing exponentially for many years; this growth places everincreasing demands on the resources of a netnews server, particularly disk space