unread news articles get gnus-ancient-mark

unread news articles get gnus-ancient-mark

[Bill White]

When I read some newsgroups from our local server, newly-arrived
articles that I haven't read yet are marked with "O", which is
gnus-ancient-mark.

`O'
     Articles that were marked as read in previous sessions and are now
     "old" (`gnus-ancient-mark').

That means (at least with my settings) that I can't read the articles
unless I force gnus to re-read the whole group by entering it with C-u
RET, which takes a long time.

How can this happen since I haven't read the articles yet? Is there
something I can do to fix the problem?

Thanks!

bw
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Re: unread news articles get gnus-ancient-mark

[Kai Großjohann]

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.

kai
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Re: unread news articles get gnus-ancient-mark

[Bill White]

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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