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In <19921008192004.h198@hosp.med.umich.edu> <h198@hosp.med.umich.edu>  (Gene Mangum) writes:

>I posted on n.a.technical, but no response, so I hope someone here can
>help me.   I'm writing a DOS newsreader client and I have a question
>that I haven't been able to answer by RTFRFC.   My question is: What
>is the maximum article number within a newsgroup, and what happens
>when a group reaches that max?   Do the numbers wrap to 1 or are the
>existing articles renumbered?
>Thanks for any help,

There is no defined max, but most sites use a 32-bit int.  When a
newsgroup reaches that limit most software starts failing, the users
yell at the sysadmin, the sysadmin deletes the newsgroup and re-creates
it, and the cycle starts again.

Luckily, I don't think any newsgroup had yet to hit the limit.  Most
machines get recycled too often for it to happen.

Define a new type and use it consistantly.  If you find you picked
the wrong type you'll only have to change the .h file.

Tom
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