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From: greg@cheers.uucp (Greg Onufer)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: What happens after we get article 99,999 in some group?
Message-ID: <1T2hWr#3FqyOq=greg@cheers.UUCP>
Date: 7 Oct 89 08:13:33 GMT
References: <27176@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
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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?

It wraps around and your newsreaders have to sort it out...
or you upgrade to News 3 which uses 9 digits in the active file...
and then try to wrap *that* around :-)

Cheers!greg