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---->"SW" == Stefan Waldherr <stefan@waldherr.org> writes:

  SW> Hi, I have two (!) mails in my inbox. Yet, any time I enter the
  SW> group gnus asks me how mane mails I want to read (206?). This
  SW> sucks.

I someone wanted to create a housekeeping function to compress down
the range of numbers in nnml groups, would it simply be a case of
renumbering the files and hacking the active file? Is the change
always local to a folder?

If so, I might have a go.

Be afraid. Be very afraid...

Dave