There was no longer a dangling article but still articles with negative numbers, but now only two: a. ( 46) M Harris: -2 b. ( 51) G T Smith: -1 c. ( 23) M Harris: 215508 Can anyone make sense of what I've observed here? This is with Gnus from CVS Emacs (GNU Emacs 22.1.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.6) of 2007-04-30). Steve Berman