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From: tanner@cdis-1.compu.com (Dr. T. Andrews)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Upgrading Usenet (was Re: Who pays the bill?)
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Date: 9 Aug 90 16:56:20 GMT
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In article <1990Aug7.180710.3872@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
) Actually C News isn't doing too badly; based on analysis of
) message-IDs in our history file, C News is running at 600+ sites,
And even this may be mis-leading.  We run C news, but I'll be
dipped if my machines are going to generate C news message-IDs
which read like Russian novels.  Just look at the references
header!

I'll send the "seq" program which generates these 7-char IDs
(a 32-bit number expressed in base 36) to anyone who applies.
I'll include with the one-line change to the "anne.jones" script.
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