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FP> In AmigaUUCP, when you run Trimnews, it just deletes old articles,
FP> but leaves the article numbering where it was.  The result is that
FP> you end up with numbers in the thousands fairly quickly, and they
FP> never seem to go down!  And when that happens, DNews becomes VERY
FP> slow.

Yeah - but you can safely archive a reference newsgroup to back-up media 
without having duplicate numbers. The 'next number to use' is kept in a 
small file called .next in the directory the postings are kept in, and 
to change numbering, all you have to do is to somhow edit that file. But 
beware, the number is used as filename .... and there may be other files 
that you should simply delete and rebuild if you want to start numbering 
of all messages 'from scratch'.

   
     Kind regards

     Peter Larsen


 
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