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From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: another (hopefully) harmless query
Message-ID: <1830@watcgl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 14-May-85 23:21:23 EDT
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In article <197@greipa.UUCP> paul@greipa.UUCP (Paul A. Vixie) writes:
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>If net.micro is held in /usr/spool/net/micro, and net.micro.432 is held
>in /usr/spool/net/micro/432, where will article #432 in net.micro be held?

/usr/spool/net/micro/433.

Yes, seriously.  The article numbers are assigned to articles as they arrive,
and if that particular filename is already in use (as a directory),
inews just picks the next one in sequence.  And I assume (though I haven't
looked) that readnews is clever enough not to try to display the directory
as a news article.