On 24 Sep 15  10:59:18, Mark Hofmann said the following to Nick Andre:

NA> Every post in Fidonews is negative, so... I'm doing you a favor ;)
MH> 
MH> It was auto-added, so nothing outside the defaults.  I don't have anything 
MH> to purge which is why I have such high message numbers which seemed to wrap
MH> back into the negatives.

If there is no purge criteria defined, DBUTIL will not purge or renumber 
messages...

Nick

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