Re: Misterious article disappearances

[Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@cs.cmu.edu>]

Toni Drabik <tdrabik@public.srce.hr> writes:

> It usually goes like this: after pressing `g' in *Group* buffer, there are,
> for example, three articles in hr.comp.advocacy:
> 
>          3: hr.comp.advocacy
> 
> But, after entering that group, there are only *two* articles in *Summary*
> buffer. Exiting group (without reading those articles) changes the line in
> *Summary* buffer to:
> 
>          2: hr.comp.advocacy
> 
> Doing `C-u 3 g' on it, again gives *Summary* buffer with only two articles
> (the same two, that are shown upon first entering).

This can happen if articles which existed during the first check are
gone by the time you enter the group.  This can be due to article
expiry on the server, or because of message cancels.

I'm not sure whether crossposts would do it.  (Gnus saying, "Oh, now
that I've looked at the summary, I see that he's already read that
message in another group.)

-- 
Michael Duggan
(md5i@cs.cmu.edu)