On Sun, Sep 05 2010, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: 

> Anybody seen this kind of behaviour before?  This is with Emacs 
> 24.

There probably had been a problem in emacs 24 at some point.

I've restarted Gnus on emacs-snapshot version 20100903 (Debian 
package from Romain Francoise) and got bitten by the same problem.

For now I came back to the snapshot before, waiting for the next one. :-)

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