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From: mhw@wittsend.lbp.harris.com (Michael H. Warfield (Mike))
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Subject: Re: What happens after we get article 99,999 in some group?
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Date: 6 Oct 89 03:58:01 GMT
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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?

	Yeah, apparently.  Patch 18 to B news 2.11 adds to more digits.

	Let's see now.  With the current growth rate of USNET, plus the
various duplicates and mangled message-ids and history files, two more
orders of magnitude might get us through another year or two :-).


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