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Re: Geoff Huston's NEWS v5.8

Warning!

This version appears to have a bug which causes it to reject news items as 
duplicates once a newsgroup accumulates a lot of items. It was working fine
for us (I think...) from 17-April up until 2-May, when I presume some sort
of overflow occurreed.

Since that time, NEWS has been rejecting all items for our two big newsgroups
(comp.sys.mac, 1133 items, and comp.os.vms,706 items). Fortunately, I had
some of the item batches backed-up, and will be able to rerun them once the 
problem is identified. Watch out if you don't have this backup.

The problem also evidences itself on local postings to large newsgroups...the
item gets mailed out to the net, but will not appear in the local item listing
for the newsgroup. I've mailed Geoff, but have not as yet received any fix.

The items numbers for comp.os.vms are 6519 to 7226, and comp.sys.mac 4277-5409
in case any of you C types can identify table whose subscripts might be
going out of bounds...
Ian Hill
Curtin Uni
Perth Western Australia