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Eze Ogwuma <typhoon@dircon.co.uk> writes:

> But what about the cause of the problem? It seems that for some reason
> Gnus ignores the information it gets back from the server when a group
> is entered.
> 
> E.g. 
> 
> GROUP comp.os.linux.misc 
> 211 994 247830 248828 comp.os.linux.misc selected
> 
> Gnus still starts its search based on old information in the
> .newsrc-localhost.eld file. Instead of only calling XOVER or HEAD of
> articles in the range 247830-248828 it calls XOVER/HEAD for all
> articles listed in the .eld file in this case starting with article
> 247211. 

So, does that mean that these groups aren't activated before you
attempt entering them?  Does `M-g' before entering help?

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen