Re: Gnus 5.8.2: group list

[Jaap-Henk Hoepman <hoepman@cs.utwente.nl>]

On 06 Dec 1999 11:43:50 +1100 Brian May <bmay@csse.monash.edu.au> writes:
> >>>>> "Jack" == Jack Vinson <vinson@unagi.cis.upenn.edu> writes:
> 
>     Jack> I will sometimes see one of my groups show up in duplicate.
>     Jack> (Sometimes in the same topic, sometimes as the top-level
>     Jack> topic.)  When I C-k it from one location it also vanishes
>     Jack> from the other location.  I can easily C-y it back into its
>     Jack> correct place.
> 
>     Jack> This is where things get funny.  If I do a new 'l', then a
>     Jack> /different/ group will show up as a duplicate.
> 
> I saw similar behaviour in PGnus 0.97 and PGnus 0.98.
> 
> I was about to report a bug, but then I accidently pushed the wrong
> button, and resorted the list of groups (IIRC).  I have never seen the
> problem since.
> 
> When the problem occurred for me, Gnus never displayed the number of
> articles for the first duplicate entry - instead it put a "*". This
> duplicate entry was always right at the top, unless I move it
> elsewhere.

This also happened to me today after upgrading from pgnus 0.96 to gnus 5.8.2.
What's the right way to fix it?

Jaap-Henk

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