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I have a default predicate of true and no other categories.
Its been that way for a month or longer.  

Opening gnu.emacs.gnus with C-u prompts for how many, and suggests a
total of 3256.  When the group actually opens I see 2200 of those are
actually those things marked:

   1@  31-Dec [   0: Gnus Agent  ] [Undownloaded article 69363]

Where the number is different for each.  What is the point of this?
Can there really be over 2000 messages on gnu.emacs.help that a
predicate of true has not downloaded?

Far as I know, one doesn't have to explicitly put groups in the
default category, and if the server is mentioned in
News/agent/lib/servers, then it should be downloading them all.
Even if the server is not mentioned and it is the nntp server
mentioned in .gnus, it should have any group in default predicate and
be downloading all messages..

I see thousands of these Undownloaded article summary entries in
several groups.