Aalice.393 net.news.b utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!alice!sjb Sat Jan 16 19:29:15 1982 What Happens When... Eventually, the number of current groups will exceed the LINES #def in beta-news. I noticed this past week that the number of lines in our active file (yes, I do know that LINES refers to .newsrc, not active, which is even worse, since .newsrc can have more lines than active) jumped from the 80's to almost 100. When I put news b up on alice back in Nov., we only had about 25! Our LINES is set now to 256, but sooner or later, it will exceed system limits to raise it any higher, and then what happens? Some plan ought to be thought up BEFORE systems start experiencing this rather than after! ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.