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Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:

> Nonetheless, I'm wondering if there's a way to mark articles in such a
> way that these marks are stored in the .marks file (instead of the back
> end), so that articles marked in this way will never be queried from the
> back end unless some special command is typed.

Read articles are never queried except in special
circumstances...  And you have hit them.

Maybe it would help if Gnus asked you about how many articles to
fetch.  Does it do that if gnus-large-newsgroup is small enough?
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