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> There are apparently lots of Gnus variables that have doc strings that
> do not start with "*" that are customizable.  Is that inconsistent
> with how things are supposed to be?  

yah.  the "*" is used to decide if the variable goes in the
completion list when you do M-x set-variable.  among other
things.
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