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In article <815155293snz@microvst.demon.co.uk>, "Anthony R. Gold"
<tgold@microvst.demon.co.uk> writes

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>Seems fine if you're swapping between unsynchronised Demon news servers.  
>If you stick to just news.demon.co.uk and are happy to await it's return 
>in the event of a crash, then you really only need 2 minutes worth + or - 
>the typical clock error that is adjusted after connection.  If you also 
>have access to newsservers outside of Demon, you may need far more.

If you collect more newsgroups than will fit onto a single NEWNEWS line
(this will be 20 or more depending on the name length), then you need to
have the 2 minute fuzz for the first of the batchs...

So if you only collect a few newsgroups then a small number will be OK
as Anthony suggests. BUT if you collect a lot of newsgroups then, as a
rule of thumb, keep this number a little bigger than the usual batch
size.

>The one thing I'd urge is for you to find why you are ever getting the 
>newsbase files corrupted.

indeed!

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