Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: What happens after we get article 99,999 in some group?
Message-ID: <1989Oct5.173658.7443@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <27176@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 89 17:36:58 GMT

In article <27176@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Hayman) writes:
>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?

C News uses however many digits are present in the active file; the setup
stuff we ship uses 10 instead of 5.  None of the news readers seems to care.

I believe there has been some work along similar lines in recent B News
patches, but I haven't kept track.

Of course, 10 digits is long enough to overflow a 32-bit number.  Shouldn't
take more than another decade for soc.singles. :-)
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