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Norbert Koch <n.koch@eai-delta.de> writes:

> In message <yc0hfnxprwg.fsf@whitestar.daimi.au.dk>,
> nospam2159+ding@daimi.au.dk (Peter von der Ahé - at home) wrote:
> 
> > To illustrate what the problem, please try doing the following:
> > 
> > (setq gnus-large-newsgroup 2)
> > 
> > in .gnus.el
> > 
> > Create a new nnml group with G m, copy 3 messages to this group.
> > Mark them all as read.  Delete the article with number 2.  Exit the
> > group.  Enter the group.  You will now be asked how many articles you
> > want to see, even though there only is 2 articles in the group.  This
> > can be very annoying when you have larges mail groups with gaps.
> 
> Well, after recognising this problem, you could mark all articles and
> respool them (B r). This should ease the trouble, shouldn't it?

It's rather a large and slow job when you have 40 MB of saved mails in 
some 70 different nnml groups. 

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