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Awatmath.1128 net.news utzoo!decvax!watmath!bstempleton Sat Nov 28 02:11:55 1981 user numbers watmath is the University of Waterloo, where there is a high student population using the VAX. This means that each term, as students come and go, user numbers must be re-assigned to new students. Some programs don't expect user numbers to get too high, so just increasing them is no good. The new news program should not be based on numbers but rather on names, hashed in some way. Better would be a file like .msgsrc for news, with a last read number for each user, of course.

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