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Dmitry Yaitskov <dimas@home.com> writes:

> I see. Is it a bug or a feature?

It's documented, so it's a feature.  That doesn't stop one from
turning it off, though...

> Can this behavior somehow be changed without seeting the limit to
> INT_MAX?

`gnus-large-newsgroup' is a variable declared in Lisp.

Value: nil

Documentation:
*The number of articles which indicates a large newsgroup.

-- 
Justin Sheehy

In a cloud bones of steel.