what's up with me reading comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi?

[merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)]

Bleh.  I don't get it.  My NNTP feed reports the highest article
(today) as 

    200 Supernews NNRP server ready - http://www.supernews.com (posting ok)
    group comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi
    211 1123 85842 86964 comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi group selected

Fine... looks like highest article is 86964.  Now I look at group parameters
for that group after a "C y":

    ("comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi" 3
     ((1 . 91940)))

Gah!?  Where'd that 91940 come from?  There are definitely no articles
out there.

And it's only this group.  If I edit that number to 86900, I get about
60 articles, but it says there are 5040 to read (and it takes about
three minutes of probing to figure out there's nothing between 86964
and 91940).  And when I've read those 60 articles, I get no articles
left to read, even if I ask for the "last 50" on entry.  And the end
number ends back up at 91940!

Where is Terry Gnus getting the 91940 number from?  Surely not
entering the group, nor from the "active list" (which agrees with the
group command).  Is it hallucinating?

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