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From: tjc@hrcca.UUCP (Tom Chapin)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm
Subject: Re: Problem with bitmap for vnews
Message-ID: <224@hrcca.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 21-Oct-86 09:51:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: hrcca.224
Posted: Tue Oct 21 09:51:23 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 22-Oct-86 06:05:58 EDT
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Organization: AT&T - Hickory Ridge - Lisle, IL
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> We keep getting messages similar to this one forr groups having reached
> a fairly high message number. Same with net.sf-lovers and net.women. 
> 
>> Oct 16 10:16  vnews:  Bitmap not large enough for newsgroup net.micro.mac
> Mike Arms

We got this regularly for a while when our software was scrozzled.  The
active file got trashed, and before we recreated it, users ran news and
got their .newsrc files trashed.  Then when they hit a newsrgoup with
many postings, the software assumed the postings began with article #1
up to the latest high number, which overran the bitmap.

The simplest solution is to run 'expire -u' to update the beginning
article number.  Any normal expire will also run an 'expire -u' at the
end of it.  

If this happened because you received news while expire was running,
your history file may have problems, and you might wish to consider
running 'expire -h' to search and destroy any articles the history file
lost track of, and then an 'expire -r' to rebuild it from scratch.
(Don't do it when you are about to get more news, or you will have the
same problem again...sigh...)

There are 'doexpire' scripts around which take care of this problem, but
the best solution would most likely be to upgrade to version 2.11 which
is sposed to fix things.

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