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I have deleted settings of gnus-read-active-file and
gnus-check-new-newsgroups from my ~/.gnus file, so
gnus-read-active-file is 'some and gnus-check-new-newsgroups is
'ask-server.

Strangely, when starting Gnus some newsgroups have the correct article
count and some have only `*'.

Here's the data of a `broken' newsgroup:

,-----
| ;;; Editing the group info for `nntp:comp.infosystems.harvest'.
| ;; Type `C-c C-c' after you've finished editing.
| 
| ("nntp:comp.infosystems.harvest" 3 nil nil
|  (nntp ""
|        (nntp-address "fbi-news")))
`-----

Here's the data of a `working' newsgroup:

,-----
| ;;; Editing the group info for `nntp:comp.databases.theory'.
| ;; Type `C-c C-c' after you've finished editing.
| 
| ("nntp:comp.databases.theory" 3
|  ((1 . 14198))
|  nil
|  (nntp "fbi-news"))
`-----

Strangely, after typing C-c C-c the display of this newsgroup changed
to `nntp+fbi-news:comp.databases.theory'.

What might be the problem?

I have:

,-----
| (setq gnus-select-method '(nnml ""))
| (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
|       '((nntp ""
|               (nntp-address "fbi-news"))))
`-----

kai
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