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Christopher Davis <ckd@ckdhr.com> writes:

> Toss in a fudge factor, then.  Very few resets are going to be less
> than, say, 5000 articles or so, especially since we're in extremely late
> September 1993...

I don't like fudge, especially when the results may be unpredictable.

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(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen