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Subject: Re: Question about article identification and backends.
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kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Gro=DFjohann) wrote:
> prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
>> If all articles from 1 to 100 already exist, and we are inserting a
>> new article at position 42, then the new read list is 1-41,43-101.
>> The positions of all the later articles have to be changed.
>
> Why 101?  We were talking about all articles having a unique id in
> the whole backend.  This means that there was no article 42
> previously in the group -- there is only one article with number 42.

Ah, ok.  That might work.  But then how far would we be from the
largest Emacs integer if we sequentially numbered all the articles in
all the groups on a large news server?


paul