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kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
>> I think the reason to download all marked articles was that the Agent
>> would remove flags on non-existing articles otherwise.
>
> Really?  Why does it do that?

I have no idea. :-) Maybe because it was difficult to distinguish
between non-existing and non-downloaded articles.  Hm.  But it is easy
to make that distinction.  It is probably best to remove the code and
see what breaks and fix that...