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Hrvoje Niksic writes:
>> I've often seen complaints about inefficiencies induced by big holes
>> in the sequence of read article numbers, (...)
> 
> The one inefficiency I know of is when you use total-expiry and nnml.

nncache is slow with big holes.  It takes half a minute to fetch this
group in buffer *Gnus Browse Server*:
    K  11589: comp.emacs
There are 8 actual articles.

-- 
Hallvard