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I don't understand your "add a billion" comment.

It's unimportant how gitlab numbers messages.  I've written gnus backends
whose messages are keyed off non-numeric strings.  Gitlab merely needs to
provide the parent issue id for each incoming child comment.  Then I'd
write a suitable  nngitlab-retrieve-headers that spits out the
parent id in the `References` header.