From: Bill White <billw@wolfram.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: unread news articles get gnus-ancient-mark
Date: 25 Jan 2000 17:28:36 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ruohfg191ej.fsf@g.wolfram.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "25 Jan 2000 23:29:21 +0100"
On 25 Jan 2000 23:29:21 +0100
in article <vafwvoxrdj2.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) said:
> Bill White <billw@wolfram.com> writes:
>> How can this happen since I haven't read the articles yet? Is there
>> something I can do to fix the problem?
> Gnus only takes note of the article numbers and knows that you
> have read all the messages from 1 through 50,000, say. If the
> news server admin now decides to renumber all the articles to
> numbers starting at 1, you won't be able to read the first 50,000
> articles.
> Have a look at the article number (in the mode line in the summary
> buffer I think) to verify that this is the case. If so, the
> gnus-group-clear-data and gnus-group-clear-data-on-native-groups
> commands might help.
Three cheers for Kai! gnus-group-clear-data-on-native-groups was just
the kick in the *ss my news-reading setup needed.
Thanks Kai -
bw
--
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2000-01-25 22:03 Bill White
2000-01-25 22:29 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-01-25 23:28 ` Bill White [this message]
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