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Karl Kleinpaste <karl@justresearch.com> wrote:

> Dmitry Yaitskov <dimas@home.com> writes:
> > In one of my main groups, the number of articles went beyond 200. Ok,
> > so I deleted/moved some messages, now there are only 104...
> > Still, each time I try to
> > enter that group, gnus asks me "How many articles to...(default
> > 204):". Anybody knows why?
> 
> The number offered is simply the difference between the highest- and
> lowest-numbered articles known.  You evidently removed articles from
> the middle of the range, which did not change the range limits.

I see. Is it a bug or a feature? I mean, I don't really care about the
articles' numbers and have no way to control them, why doesn't gnus
show e.g. the number of entires (lines?) in the .overview file
instead? Can this behavior somehow be changed without seeting the
limit to INT_MAX? Thanks.

-- 
Cheers,
-Dima.