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David Hedbor <david@hedbor.org> writes:

  > [...] This has of course been discussed many times before but I
  > have yet to understand why gnus can't check how many messages
  > there REALLY are in a mail group. How hard can that really be?
  > [...]

It is not hard, but slow.  Use nnmh as your mail backend and you will
see just *how* slow.  (With nnmh, Gnus looks for the exact number of
messages in a group because nnmh does not have these nifty .overview
files.  I think.)

kai
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