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Dmitry Yaitskov <dimas@home.com> 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.

That is, the question is not interesting.  Typical news servers, such
as INN, use 10-digit article numbers, which means they won't overflow
until they go past 9,999,999,999.  On my 3-year old INN server, even
the "control.cancel" and "junk" groups are numbered only into the
mid-ten-million range.