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Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Hm.  But maybe you can implement this `ask backend for marks' stuff to
> just reuse article numbers, where you just look at the list of
> messages currently in the group and then number them from 1 to N.

This function is only run sometimes, and in between, Gnus is using
it's locally stored .newsrc.eld flags.  So it wouldn't work very well.
It would be nice if Gnus didn't store flags locally but rather let the
backends handle them, but this would take a redesign of lots of stuff,
I think.