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Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vvv.vsu.ru> writes:

> So, one should always keep in mind, how many articles (and in which
> number regions) were deleted and adjust the requested number of
> articles? :) Is it possible to overcome this technical problem? May
> be, introduce some backend-specific functions which should retrieve a
> given number of (not deleted but really existing) articles?

Giving Gnus more info on what articles are actually available is on
the todo list, but is unlikely to be implemented anytime soon.

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