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Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

> Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch> writes:
> 
> > Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
> > 
> > > I'm seriously considering moving to slrn.  Or tin.  Or PINE.  Or
> > > anything that would stop the pain.
> > 
> > None of them would have helped. The problem remains the same.
> 
> Gnus could be more helpful.  Something like:
> 
> (when (< last-article-number-on-server last-read-article-number)
>   (if (yes-or-no-p "Server numbers have been reset, start on a fresh? ")
>       (gnus-group-clear-data)
>     (error "Server reset")))
> 
> I believe rn did that.

Yes, that would be very cool.  It would at least spare me the agony of 
trying to edit .newsrc.eld, .newsrc, `G E' output, and finding about
`gnus-group-clear-data' and `gnus-group-clear-data-on-native-groups',
in no particular order.

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
--------------------------------+--------------------------------
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.