* Threading corrupted (negative article numbers)
@ 2007-05-08 21:44 Stephen Berman
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From: Stephen Berman @ 2007-05-08 21:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Something I've never experienced with Gnus happened while reading the
newsgroup gmane.linux.suse.general: the threading suddenly fragmented
and one article appeared three times, once dangling before its thread
and twice within the thread. When it happened I had most likely just
typed RET or `n' to read the next unread article, though I don't
remember if this was on the article that became dangling. Here is a
screenshot of the fragmented threading:
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The underscored line is the dangling article. The three articles
immediately below this have negative numbers; here is a schematic
showing the article numbers:
a. ( 23) M Harris: 215508
b. ( 46) M Harris: -3
c. ( 51) G T Smith: -2
d. ( 23) M Harris: -1
e. ( 23) M Harris: 215508
Line a is the dangling article, lines d and e are its other
occurrences. When I again typed RET or `n' on line a, nothing
happened. When I typed RET or `n' on line e, the cursor jumped to
line a.
After doing this I quit the group with `Q' and then reentered it
again. Now the threading was no longer fragmented, but different:
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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
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