guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris) (01/13/86)
> Is it possible that vnews (readnews, etc.) can skip over a > *new* article recently received which happens to have the same > article number of an article marked as "has been read before" > in your .newsrc file? I suppose this is not too much of > a problem if it takes an extremely long time for the same > article numbers to recycle. Since article numbers are "int"s, they have at least the range 1 - 32767 and they take an *extremely* long time to recycle (net.unix-wizards, here at Sun, is around 17000). I'm moving this discussion to net.news, where it belongs. Guy Harris