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

> Dale Hagglund <rdh@best.com> writes:
> 
> > When I try to mark the article with `u', I get an error complaining
> > about a negative article number. 
> 
> If Gnus doesn't know the article number, you can't mark it.

I hadn't considered the implications of fetching by article-id.  

But, isn't the article number in the Xref header information?  Pick
the one that's given for the current group, or choose a negative
number if the parent article happens not to have been posted to the
current group.

Dale.