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From: mday@iconsys.UUCP (Matthew T. Day)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: What happens after we get article 99,999 in some group?
Message-ID: <405@iconsys.UUCP>
Date: 5 Oct 89 19:31:21 GMT
References: <27176@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Organization: ICON International, Inc., Orem, UT
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From article <27176@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>, by sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Hayman):
> 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?

That limit was extended to 7 digits with patch 18 to B News 2.11.
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