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Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:

> Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com> writes:
>
>>  All Gnus knows is
>> the minimalist data point, "there are articles here numbered between X
>> and Y."
>
> I think it knows a bit more : I know the number of flagged and dormant
> articles from the *Group* buffer already.

An interesting possibility would be to have a "mark" which can be set by a
user-provided function, as the articles are being split.  The group buffer
could then display the number of articles that have that mark set...

Derrell