Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!philapd!ssp15!jos
From: jos@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Jos Vos)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Max number of articles in USENET
Message-ID: <706@ssp15.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 12 Dec 88 06:13:18 GMT
References: <445@ivucsb.UUCP>
Organization: Philips Telecommunication and Data Systems, The Netherlands
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In article <445@ivucsb.UUCP> news@ivucsb.UUCP (Todd Day) writes:

>What is the maximum number of articles that inews will deal with
>in any given news group directory?  I've been hacking the 'rn'
>source, and all article number print statments have "%5ld".  What
>happens when the system goes over five digits?  Does inews
>automatically renumber all of the articles at that point?

No, but new articles are given number 1 again.
It's in the source of inews - I looked at it a while ago because I
was curious too.
You see, the USENET world is infinitive :-)

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