Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!rjwhite
From: rjwhite@watmath.waterloo.edu (RJ White)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: what happens when article # exceeds 99999 ?
Keywords: news, active file
Message-ID: <17173@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 1 Mar 88 06:53:39 GMT
References: <595@ambush.UUCP>
Reply-To: rjwhite@watmath.waterloo.edu (RJ White)
Organization: University of Waterloo [MFCF]
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In article <595@ambush.UUCP> kimcm@ambush.UUCP (Kim Chr. Madsen) writes:
	
	I wonder what will happen when the article count in our active file
	reaches the magical limit 99999 -- or rather what will happen to the
	next article arriving in the group?

from inews.c:
if (ngsize < 0 || ngsize > 99998) {
	logerr("found bad ngsize %ld ng %s, setting to 1", ngsize, bfr);
	ngsize = 1;
}