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Well, I've just lost ~200 messages. *sigh*

It seems that Emacs 21.3 (or Gnus 5.10.3) can't cope with network
outages during a POP3 download.  Furthermore, from time to time during
POP3 download, Emacs runs into an infinite loop, eating 100% CPU.