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Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> I've discovered that hitting RET on the group then answering 99 to the
> prompt is not the same thing as typing 9 9 RET!

No, they're quite different.

> Suppose there is one unread message.  I hit RET, then answer 99 to the
> prompt.  I see 98 of the ticked message, plus the unread one.  If,
> however, I hit 9 9 RET, I see the 99 most recent messages, whether
> they are ticked or marked as read or expirable.

Yup.

> Do I have to set gnus-large-newsgroup to 0 or is there some other way
> to get both behaviors even for small groups?

I thing you have to set that variable to 0 to get the behavior.

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