USENET Skips Over New Articles With Old Number?

[Guy Harris]

> Is it possible that vnews (readnews, etc.) can skip over a
> *new* article recently received which happens to have the same
> article number of an article marked as "has been read before"
> in your .newsrc file?  I suppose this is not too much of
> a problem if it takes an extremely long time for the same
> article numbers to recycle.

Since article numbers are "int"s, they have at least the range 1 - 32767 and
they take an *extremely* long time to recycle (net.unix-wizards, here at
Sun, is around 17000).

I'm moving this discussion to net.news, where it belongs.

	Guy Harris