-=> Quoting Paul Michaelson to Bruce Clark <=-
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 RLK> 5. It is a simple task to delete all ads from your system, and 
 RLK> you can do that as often as you like. 
 BC> It might be simple to do this, but JUNO keeps an encrypted  
 BC> log of what ads were on your system. If those ads aren't there  
 BC> anymore, and the timing on them hasn't run out, they will be  
 BC> redownloaded. I think, when I did this, that the transfer time  
 BC> was increased by about a minute, to get all the ads back on  
 BC> my system.  
 PM> Is this log file the one on your system in the juno\ads subdirectory
 PM> or  is it on the juno server computer?  If its the one on your computer
 PM> does  it help to just delete when you delete the ads there? 
Nope! The Juno server uses your log to determine what not 
to duplicate. If there is no log, they resend EVERYTHING 
that should be there. 
I've found that after a certain time period the ads are 
deleted from the system. Only problem, the directories 
aren't, so I find the empty directories and delete them. 
After two months my ADS directory has 570k of files, occupying 
810k of disk space. 29% slack. (all files occupy disk space in 
increments of a cluster size) 
I think they made the program to take into account the people 
who want to delete the ads. The program checks the directories 
against the log file, then against the server log, and downloads 
everything that should have been there. 
 
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