[Alpine-info] Are Their Hard Limits in News Group Articles?

[Chime Hart]

Well, I am trying to open alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.dance in alpine. Yes it 
crashes with the following:
[Opening "alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.dance" ... ]

Problem detected: "Bad msgno 1000001 in mail_elt, nmsgs = 1000000, 
mbx={news.ord.giganews.com:119/nntp/readonly/user="gn319759"}#news.alt.binaries.soun".
Alpine Exiting.


        Attempting to save debug file to /home/chime/.pine-crash

Abort
Back again live, in looking over that crash log, it mentions
08:36:53.303884: IMAP 08:36:53 10/10 mm_log error: Mailbox has more messages 
(1819586) exist than maximum (1000000)
08:36:53.303896: q_status_message(Folder has more messages (1819586) exist than 
maximum (1000000))
Back again live, so are their either an article number limit or total number of 
articles in a group limit? And more importantly, can I get around these? Thanks 
so much in advance
Chime