[news.admin] what happens when article # exceeds 99999 ?

kimcm@ambush.UUCP (Kim Chr. Madsen) (02/25/88)

Hello net-admin's
	
I wonder what will happen when the article count in our active file
reaches the magical limit 99999 -- or rather what will happen to the
next article arriving in the group?

I know I'm supposed to reset the article count before this situation
arises and that this won't cause any damage to existing articles since
nobody have diskspace to keep 100000 articles (even subtracting the
others in other groups). But out of curiosity I ask.

PS: Please respond by mail - I'll summarize to the net if requests are
made.

					
					Best Regards
					Kim Chr. Madsen 
					kimcm@ambush.dk
				or	..!mcvax!diku!ambush!kimcm

rjwhite@watmath.waterloo.edu (RJ White) (03/01/88)

In article <595@ambush.UUCP> kimcm@ambush.UUCP (Kim Chr. Madsen) writes:
	
	I wonder what will happen when the article count in our active file
	reaches the magical limit 99999 -- or rather what will happen to the
	next article arriving in the group?

from inews.c:
if (ngsize < 0 || ngsize > 99998) {
	logerr("found bad ngsize %ld ng %s, setting to 1", ngsize, bfr);
	ngsize = 1;
}