Note that the yellow bars on the left are my unlearned spam articles (they need to be trained), gray means "ham", and the yellow "Lars" lines are because he's just super cool (and served as a good example for the day). But the important part, is that the whole line isn't affected. Just parts of it. The gnus-highlight expressions lay over the top of the gnus-summary-hightlight and thus serve as an overlay. you could markk just parts of the summary line as undownloaded, etc. -- "In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap, and much more difficult to find." -- Terry Pratchett