From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/23499 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Colin Rafferty Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: some mail annoyances [article number overflow] Date: 23 Jun 1999 17:02:07 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035161220 2321 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:47:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:47:00 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA16914 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 17:03:55 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAB20290; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 16:03:26 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 23 Jun 1999 16:04:09 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA03967 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 16:03:57 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from piinbh1.ms.com (firewall-user@piinbh1.ms.com [199.89.64.71]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA16875 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 17:02:56 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from uucp@localhost) by piinbh1.ms.com (8.8.6/fw v1.22) id RAA05479 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 17:02:34 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from unknown(144.14.9.190) by piinbh1.ms.com via smap (4.1) id xma005179; Wed, 23 Jun 99 17:02:08 -0400 Original-Received: from sag3 (sag3.morgan.com [144.14.8.198]) by safid1.morgan.com (8.8.5/hub+ldap v2.3) with ESMTP id RAA20427 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 17:02:08 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (craffert@localhost) by sag3 (980427.SGI.8.8.8/sendmail.cf.client v1.05) id RAA16922; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 17:02:07 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: GNUS Mailing List Mail-Copies-To: never X-Attribution: > X-Face: ByE+UMAp1klWR3?\RNGx(A-~Ri!YT%C6M!sxoJL+.;9`Q/|+dj7[KR>gGMyV.2qZeot0NI`4\MA^_Qg`F9=+Ox&zaE?Y9dV%F~Xzf';Zyk2Aobs.uu^Ey0_C6^~q';G#$HkA!ZAHXPpG-"*|Dd*Z4U$4y{{aI0c%75}i~Of(jxYtI[uIpYF<*Zoe|\*/ufb X-Y-Zippy: Everywhere I look I see NEGATIVITY and ASPHALT... In-Reply-To: Karl Kleinpaste's message of "23 Jun 1999 15:15:52 -0400" Original-Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070084 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.84) XEmacs/21.2 (Sakuragawa) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23499 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23499 Karl Kleinpaste writes: > Dmitry Yaitskov writes: >> BTW. What happens when the article numbers *do* overflow? They are >> bound to overflow eventually, aren't they? > This will become an interesting question if and only if you have a > mail folder which has received at least 10,000,000,000 messages. You are being too kind to XEmacs. most-positive-fixnum => 1073741823 Of course, if you move to a 64-bit XEmacs before you hit a Gig, there shouldn't be a problem. -- Colin