-=> On 06-30-04  21:16,  Bj”rn Felten <=-
 -=> spoke to Viktor Pilpenok about And now for something com <=-

 BF> I just checked the JAM source, and found that the 
 BF> message number is stored as a longint. That means you have 
 BF> to pass more than 2 milliard msgs before you have to 
 BF> renumber. I bet that will not happen in any echo in your 
 BF> lifetime? :)

 BF> So, purge away all you want, but skip the renumbering, 
 BF> and you'll be safe for the next 20,000 years or more, even 
 BF> with the largest echoes we have here in fidonet.

  That is not a bad estimate.  The database for echo I help moderate is
  at number 231K over a period of not quite one decade.

  OTOH, when I read the messages after downloading them in a QWK door,
  those numbers are truncated to 16 bit, and that has turned over
  multiple times since I started.

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