Parent, Referenced, Threads and ANNOYANCES.

[Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>]

Hi,

for a long time now the "Fetch parent" (doesn't find the article),
"Fetch referenced" (retrieves some articles at best) and "Fetch thread"
(makes a total mess) aren't working correctly for me. In the same
context is the "can't mark article with negative number" (whatever the
exact wording) for articles that have been fetched with A R or ^: I may
want to mark the root of a thread unread.

They've been fine in the early Pterodactyl Gnus series, and broke some
while back. I'm not the only person to have difficulties with these
functions. I can't pinpoint the exact date when these functions
broke. Such breakage in a stable series isn't exactly making Gnus
attractive.

What is the reason why these reports are apparently getting ignored? Is
someone working on these? Should I file a bug? Did I forget to kill/edit
files when I updated? What other information do I have to provide so
someone can start looking at this?

Thanks in advance for any help that is not "switch newsreader".

-- 
Matthias Andree