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

> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
>> gnus-agent invokes (gnus-active GROUP-NAME) to see which articles are
>> in a group.  I have a group where gnus-active returns something like
>> (1 . 4711) but actually only the first article exists and then the
>> last twenty or so starting at 4690.
>
> Well, finding out which articles are in a group basically means
> querying the server and seeing what we get.  :-)

Well, I think I was asking how to do that.  I had gotten lost in the
maze of small functions, all alike...

But I think the question is now obsolete, Kevin must have solved it
for me -- gnus-agent does the new job nicely.
-- 
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