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Subject: Re: When does disgest volume number roll over?
From: Brent Chapman <brent @ mycroft . GreatCircle . COM>
Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 19:59:11 -0700
To: "John P. Rouillard" <rouilj @ terminus . cs . umb . edu>
Cc: Software Development <junkyard @ primate . wisc . edu>, majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 24 May 1994 22:24:15 -0400

"John P. Rouillard" <rouilj@terminus.cs.umb.edu> writes:

# 
# In message <9405250134.AA10057@uakari.primate.wisc.edu>, Software Development
# writes:
# > For a digested majordomo list, when does the volume number roll over
# > and the issue number reset to 1?
# 
# Never.
# 
# > Or do I just do that manually in the list's configuration file?
# 
# Bingo, you got the joke. Basically there is no way I can determine
# when a new volume number needs to be issued. It seems to me that there
# is a limit of 999 issues per volume, but I doubt many people will allow
# the issue numbers to get that high before issuing a new volume.

I roll them over by hand every year on January 1.  In addition to
incrementing the volume number, you need to set the issue number back
to "1".


-Brent
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