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.

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