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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
>> If Gnus stored marks for message ids instead of article numbers:
>>
>> * you could move from one news server to another without losing your
>>   marks, and without gnus-move-to-another-server, or what is it
>>   called;
>
> Uhm...  no, I don't think so.  For that to work, nntp.el would have to
> maintain a complete mapping between article numbers and Message-IDs
> for all articles on both servers (ok, for all the groups you're
> reading), which just isn't quite practical.

Why does nntp.el need the article numbers?
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