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Re: Richard's obligatory, monthly, stupid question!!!
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Fri, 22 Jan 1999 00:45:15 GMT
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richard.dee@nospam.virgin.net (Richard Dee) writes:
> > > And as far as how the numbers are generated: Todd? :) Possibly a
> > > sequence, or something with time encoded, or whatever...
> >
> > Article numbers in a newsgroup start at 1 and count upward monotonically
> > without skipping any numbers.
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> So, (In response to this and your other post....)
> on RTL I am at about 90000. At present there are some threads
> to which the originating post does not yet appear. So, let's
> assume the one I have is 90000, and the original arrives a
> few days later, with the 200 or so other posts picked up during
> that time. Would the original post, which has taken its time,
> be listed as 90201, or 89999?? I think that you are saying
> the former.
It would be listed as somewhere between 90001 and 90201. 89999 would already
be defined on your server if you had already seen something numbered 90000.
The ISP that I get RTL from (visi.com) has the most recent message numbered
at 129,000. Each newsserver has its own article numbering; there's no global
article numbering for groups...(although I think admins can go download copies
of standardized 'active' files)...because each Usenet news server theoretically
sees a slightly different slice of the pie -- some see more spam than others,
and some see limited distribution articles (using the 'Distribution' header).
> BTW, thanks for the header translation, I know what most of the
> stuff there is, but had always wondered about that what looked
> like gobbledegook!!
BTW, have you seen the X-Face tag? :)
--Todd
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