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On Wed, 15 Apr 1998 22:29:20 +0100, netnews@nanabozo.demon.co.uk wrote:
>In <slrn6j9u69.2j.chris@scotgate2.demon.co.uk>, on 04/15/98
>   at 06:13 PM, chris@scotgate2.demon.co.uk (Chris H Lindley) said:
>
>>I don't know why, but twice in the last year I've had to do this.
>>Maybe when a news server has an upgrade or something it changes the
>>numbers. Dammed silly if you ask me!!
>
>>The first time I had to change all the numebers from
>>100005677 to 000005677
>
>>Don't know why.
>
>>News now seems as before, if not a little slower!
>
>You could maybe avoid the article numbering problems if you used
>newnews rather than xover to request data from demons servers

But AFAIK newnews is a lot slower than xover!

I suppose it doesn't matter that much, and I suppose it's
my own lazy nature in not designing better filters,
but my average daily news download is about 2mb.

(Why on earth I use such a waste of your bandwidth
I don't know. It;s like chucking bottles into the bin
instead of recycling them:-))

Cheers
Chris

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