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* Didier Verna:

> ssSslang <sssslang@163.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all. I use Gnus to deal maillist as well as my personal mail. Nowadays I
>> found that if I manually delete some mail, there are some "holes" in the
>> article number queue. Then when I open a group contains that "hole", I
>> cannot get the right number of article displayed which I entered before. So
>> the article number system makes me confused. Is there any way to disable
>> this feature?
>
>         The usual way to handle this is to move all articles from one group to
> a new one. If you're using nnml, you can also throw an eye to the group
> compaction feature.

nnml also seems to update the message count once you've visited the
group (at least that's what I see over here).