From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28953 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill White Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: unread news articles get gnus-ancient-mark Date: 25 Jan 2000 17:28:36 -0600 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165707 32464 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:01:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:01:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 415F1D051E for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 18:30:13 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAB25869; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 17:29:45 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 25 Jan 2000 17:29:00 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA00683 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 17:28:49 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from dragonfly.wolfram.com (dragonfly.wolfram.com [140.177.10.12]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC83ED051E for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 18:28:42 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from g.wolfram.com (billw@g.wolfram.com [140.177.4.48]) by dragonfly.wolfram.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA15393; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 17:28:39 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from billw@localhost) by g.wolfram.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) id RAA31253; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 17:28:38 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: g.wolfram.com: billw set sender to billw@wolfram.com using -f Original-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai=?iso-8859-1?q?_Gro=DFjohann?=) X-Liturgical-Date: Feast -- Conversion of St. Paul, Ap, A.D. 2000 In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "25 Jan 2000 23:29:21 +0100" Original-Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0804 (Gnus v5.8.4) Emacs/20.5 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28953 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28953 On 25 Jan 2000 23:29:21 +0100 in article Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) said: > Bill White 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 --=20 Bill White . billw@wolfram.com . http://members.wri.com/billw