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Steve Harris writes:
> Can you envision what changes to the Gnus backend interface would be
> necessary to allow nnimap/maildir's huge message IDs with huge gaps to
> work okay?

IIUC, no interface changes would be necessary.  The nnimap backend
would just use a different method of generating article numbers: do
its own sequence instead of using the numbers coming from the IMAP
server.  What might be nice is if Gnus would provide a function for
backends to use that increments and returns a per-server+newsgroup
counter, saving it in newsrc.eld between sessions, but the backends
can already get the same functionality with more work now.


paul