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Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:

> On Wednesday 24 February 2010 20:38:47 Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> I've never seen this before a couple of mnths ago in many yrs of
>> using gnus. I'm not sure what in my config may be causing this but
>> have posted  my ~/.gnus at the URL below.
>
> The problem is not related to dormant or ticked articles, but it's an 
> ugly side-effect of the latest changes to the summary buffer code.  It 
> used to provide the thread folding with a feature called selective 
> display, which is deprecated now.  Therefore, gnus uses overlays for 
> that task since some few month, and that's where the problems you 
> describe started.

Good to know ... thanks

Do you know why it was deprecated?  Does it interfere with other nifty
features?  

> That being said, I dunno if something can be done about this...

Well, its definitely well above my abilities...