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Laura Conrad <lconrad@gamesville.com> writes:

> >>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
> 
> 
>     Russ> Hm... speaking of this, is there a good way in Gnus to get
>     Russ> the number of ticked or unread articles in a specific
>     Russ> newsgroup from anywhere inside Gnus (not necessarily in that
>     Russ> particular newsgroup)?  If there is, I could write a quick
>     Russ> little function to respond to a message with something like
>     Russ> "I've received your e-mail, and this is a semi-automated
>     Russ> response.  Please be patient... I have 253 pending mail
>     Russ> messages to respond to, but I promise I'll get to yours as
>     Russ> soon as I can."
> 
> For that application, does it matter if the count is correct?

(random 500)?

-bp