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Re: ietf-nntp New wording on article numbers

Jon Ribbens <jon@oaktree.co.uk> Sat, 28 December 1996 17:58 UTC

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From: Jon Ribbens <jon@oaktree.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: ietf-nntp New wording on article numbers
To: "William H. Magill" <magill@isc.upenn.edu>
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 17:54:08 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: ccaputo@alt.net, clive@demon.net, ietf-nntp@academ.com
In-Reply-To: <199612281718.MAA13713@staff.dccs.upenn.edu> from "William H. Magill" at Dec 28, 96 12:18:43 pm
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William H. Magill wrote:
> Penn runs INN on an AXP 2100 under Digital Unix, so I'm all for 64 bits!
>         (http://www.upenn.edu/dccs/news/faq/faq-conf-server.html)

I'm not ;-). It's unnecessary and causes problems on 32-bit machines.

> As for 1 article per second - we passed that mark almost 2 years ago.
> We cleared 1.1 article per second back in April of 95.

In a single group!? Remember, article numbers are individual to each
newsgroup. The only group which could possibly have a problem would
be control.cancel, and I don't really think it matters if that group
rolls over.

Cheers


Jon
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