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Subject: Re: what's up with me reading comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi?
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merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
>     group comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi
>     211 1123 85842 86964 comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi group selected
> Fine... looks like highest article is 86964.  Now I look at group parameters
> for that group after a "C y":
>     ("comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi" 3
>      ((1 . 91940)))

See if "list active comp.whatever" gives consistent results.

There are circumstances in which these numbering reports vary,
stupidly and inconsistently.

Gnus uses "group" on group entry but "list" elsewhen.