On May 13, 1999, Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> wrote:

> * Bill White <billw@wolfram.com>  on Thu, 13 May 1999
> | When I came in this morning, my *Group* buffer looked like this, where
> | groups with mail received their mail when I retrieved it this morning.

> | <snip>...
> |           *: nnml:wri.jokes

> I've seen this happen once before -- with a released version of Gnus.  I
> was never able to reproduce the phenomenon so I discounted it as a user
> error of some sort.

I sometimes get this when disk is full and gnus writes an incomplete
`active' file.  So I wrote the attached script, which has saved my
life several times already :-)

-- 
Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva IC-Unicamp, Bra[sz]il
{oliva,Alexandre.Oliva}@dcc.unicamp.br  aoliva@{acm.org,computer.org}
oliva@{gnu.org,kaffe.org,{egcs,sourceware}.cygnus.com,samba.org}
*** E-mail about software projects will be forwarded to mailing lists