Re: ISSUE: Checkgroups control messages
"Charles Lindsey" <[email protected]>
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In <[email protected]> Thorfinn <[email protected]> writes: >DNS solves the problem by saying "sequence space arithmetic"... >meaning if you are within plus half-the-number-range, you can consider >the number "greater than", but if you are within minus half-the-number- >range, then you consider it less than. Ah! That might well be an acceptable solution to the run-around of article numbers problem, which has just reared its head on the NNTP list. -- Charles H. Lindsey ---------At Home, doing my own thing------------------------ Tel: +44 161 436 6131 Fax: +44 161 436 6133 Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl Email: [email protected] Snail: 5 Clerewood Ave, CHEADLE, SK8 3JU, U.K. PGP: 2C15F1A9 Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5