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From: alan@essex.ac.uk (Stanier A)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: active file query
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Date: 16 Jun 89 10:48:12 GMT
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   In the 4 months we have been running news, we have received 7873
articles for soc.culture.china, and over 5000 for several other
newsgroups. If the traffic continues at that rate, then in 4 years
the article numbers will exceed 99999 - and larger than the active
file seems to take. We are curious about what happens then. I guess
that sites who have run news for longer than we have will have reached
this point: what happens, please?

  Alan  M  Stanier                               copyright 1989 A M Stanier
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