cannot get ALL articles in a group

[Michael.Cook@cisco.com]

Denys Duchier <Denys.Duchier@ps.uni-sb.de> writes:

> I just discovered that there is a group on our server for which I
> cannot convince Gnus to fetch all the articles (already read, some
> ticked).  I can do it just fine by telneting directly to the nntp
> port.
>
> I tried using number prefixes to no avail.  I don't even know what
> info to provide to track down the problem.  I was running an old CVS
> version: I tried updating from the CVS again, but nothing changed.
>
> Any advice?

i reported an apparent bug recently related to ~/Mail/active not
being updated properly (the "lower bound" number is too high
sometimes).  i haven't had an opportunity to look into it further
yet, but if that problem is the problem you're seeing, then you
should be able to work around the problem by editing ~/Mail/active.
find the line of the group in question.
it'll be something like this:

bulk.ding 23172 21207 y

change the second number to something smaller:

bulk.ding 23172 1 y

m.