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My Gnus installation (various CVS version over the past few years)
exhibits the following strange behavior: If the news server admin
deletes or replaces the active.times file, Gnus resubscribes a
significant number of Usenet (nntp) groups as mail (nnml) groups.
Of course, this completely clutters the group list. 8-(

Has anybody observed this as well?  Where should I start looking for a
fix?