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Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> wrote:
> This is intended as a feature -- Gnus (i.e. .newsrc.eld) remembers
> `seen' marks.  Backends remembers `recent' marks.  If the backend
> would remember `seen', it would make the two flags have the same
> semantics.

I still disagree on that.  It seems to me that the semantic difference
is only a matter of where changes are initiated for each mark.  This
ought to be orthogonal to how the marks are stored.


paul