[news.software.nntp] Non-consecutive article numbers

news@linac.fnal.gov (07/24/90)

Machine: Sun 4/260c, SunOS 4.0.3, B News 2.11.19, NNTP 1.5.9

Ever since I got our NNTP link up and running several days ago,
article numbers are are no longer consecutive in any of the articles
received via NNTP. This was never a problem when only UUCP was being
used to receive the news. So now when someone fires up rn they see
ridiculous messages like

>> Unread news in comp.unix.questions                      2393898 articles

when in fact there are only five articles in ~/news/comp/unix/questions. 
An ls reveals that the actual article numbers are:2,39,239,3939,23939 .

Also rn gives out "Warning: someone reset XX.XX.XX - assuming nothing read"
messages on startup. I assume these problems with rn are just due to the
non-consecutive article numbers.

Also I'm seeing a lot of

>>inews: found bad ngsize 5313130 ng comp.sys.XXX, setting to 1

in /usr/lib/news/log and /usr/lib/news/errlog.

Why is this happening?

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