Re: Tr: ISSUE: Checkgroups control messages

["Charles Lindsey" <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In <> =?Windows-1252?Q?Julien_=C9LIE?= <julien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

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