Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!sahayman
From: sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Hayman)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: What happens after we get article 99,999 in some group?
Message-ID: <27176@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 4 Oct 89 22:19:43 GMT
Reply-To: sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Hayman)
Organization: Computer Science Department, Indiana University
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Here on iuvax the highest numbered article is #53785 in soc.singles.
A couple of other groups are over 40000.

Has anyone thought through what problems we may have in a couple of
years when the 5-digit active file article numbers start wrapping around?

I am not an expert on news internals so this may not really be
a problem.  

Steve