Re: Tr: ISSUE: Checkgroups control messages
"Charles Lindsey" <[email protected]> Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:26:17 GMT
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In <FDD172E722E445F8BCD9252E9BE21220@Iulius> =?Windows-1252?Q?Julien_=C9LIE?= <[email protected]> writes: >Well, if your news server does not do any kind of expiration, what do you >once you have exhausted the whole range of article numbers? Who (apart from Google) has the resources to store the complete set of articles in a group which has run-around its article numbers? And what else could such a server do if it intended to continue accepting new articles? Move the old ones to a separate archive group? It is no use arbitrarily deciding to use 64 bit numbers, because its client user agents would break. -- 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