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Kurt Swanson <ksw@dna.lth.se> writes:

>     Is Gnus actually trying to get headers for 118989 non-existing
>     articles?

Yes. 

>     Why doesn't it do a LISTGROUP to obtain the list of
>     existing articles?

Because I didn't know about that command?

I've now added it to nntp.el, but how should it be used?  I see two
possible uses -- when entering a group, to get the real list of
articles first, and when `g'-ing, to get the real number of unread
articles in the group buffer.  The latter would probably take far too
long, though, to be of any use.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen