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Paul Stevenson <p.stevenson@surrey.ac.uk> writes:

> B White writes:
>
>> how can i use '/ m' in the summary buffer to limit to unseen articles,
>> whose mark is "."?
>
> I have a feeling that one can only limit to a certain subset of marks
> (primary marks?) and that "." isn't one of them.

Yes.

> I think I had the feeling ages ago that class war should be fought on
> behalf of marks so that they were all of equal status.

If all marks were the same, you couldn't tell them apart.  F is a read
SOUP article, but F as a secondary mark is a forwarded article.  OTOH
this seems to be the only overlapping character, and SOUP is not
extremely popular so perhaps the SOUP character could be changed.