> Agreed.  The current default has always struck me as seriously weird.  
> I run it daily.

You mean you changed the period newsyslog is invoked by editing
crontab?  An alternative way is to specify when it should be rotated
directly in newsyslog.conf.  Our server at office is configured like
this:

/var/log/messages                       644  9    *    $W1D0 Z

enami