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>>>>>> "DA" == Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:
>
> DA> [long story short, you _need_ gnus-propagate-marks on]
>
>>> BTW: I think, that the default of this variable should be t nowadays,
>
> Mark propagation is not universally supported.  

By what? (not challenging; just not understanding yet).

> Setting it to t would certainly break things here.

Where; what things?

> Gnus needs to work correcly with gnus-propagate-marks nil.

Perhaps so.  Can you define what "correctly" means in this case?

Thanks,

-- 
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
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