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In message <yc0hfnxprwg.fsf@whitestar.daimi.au.dk>,
nospam2159+ding@daimi.au.dk (Peter von der Ahé - at home) wrote:

> To illustrate what the problem, please try doing the following:
> 
> (setq gnus-large-newsgroup 2)
> 
> in .gnus.el
> 
> Create a new nnml group with G m, copy 3 messages to this group.
> Mark them all as read.  Delete the article with number 2.  Exit the
> group.  Enter the group.  You will now be asked how many articles you
> want to see, even though there only is 2 articles in the group.  This
> can be very annoying when you have larges mail groups with gaps.

Well, after recognising this problem, you could mark all articles and
respool them (B r). This should ease the trouble, shouldn't it?