[net.micro.6809] net.micro.6809

wls@astrovax.UUCP (09/18/83)

I think the choice of purely numeric names for subgroups, like net.micro.6809
(and net.micro.432) is unfortunate.  For sites running news 2.10 or 2.10.1
that have separate subdirectories for subgroups, what happens to the next
article in net.micro when the article count reaches 6808 ?
--- William L. Sebok {allegra,cbosgd,decvax,ihnp4,kpno}!astrovax!wls

mark@cbosgd.UUCP (09/19/83)

I've created net.micro.6809.

There haven't already been 6809 articles - we're only up to about
3000 and we've been on since the beginning.  So nobody will already
have one.

2.10 takes such things into account.  If it gets up to article 6809
and it can't create it because there's already a directory with that
name, it will just skip to 6810.