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>>>>> "L" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

L> Kurt Swanson <ksw@dna.lth.se> writes:
>> The user has already read 1-5000

L> Making the numbers bigger does not alter the principle.

Yes, it does.  I've had gnus take down my emacs by trying to read a
group where although there were, say, a couple hundred articles, it
said there were a couple million.  After Gnus exhausted my sytem's
memory, it went down....  I think at the time, I traced it down to
Gnus using a vector for the articles, and naively trying to make a
vector that was many millions long.

-- 
Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - By consent of the corrupted
While having never invented a sin, I'm trying to perfect several.