Hi,

after not getting any reply on the bug-gnus list, I asked Lars, and he
told me to post here.

Problem is that the stuff in gnus-move.el basically seems rotten.  For
example, the current code will infloop when an article in the `from'
server does not have a corresponding article with the same message id
on the `to' server: the second looking-at will in that case always
stare at the same point.

Anyway, it was probably not easy to encounter because the whole stuff
was as molasses-slow as to be indistinguishable from inflooping except
for quite small groups.

So I have rewritten the stuff to be efficient.  And it is really
efficient like anything.  The problem is that the input and output
data it tries to be working with does not seem to match the problem.
The article numbers corresponding to the message ids do not seem to
match the articles fetched.  Given the input data, it appears to do
what I expect when going through with edebug.  But the results of the
conversion do not work.

The conversion appears to be garbage-in, garbage-out.  Not good.  Now
I don't have enough of a clue about the data structures from news
servers and gnus internals to figure out just what the garbage part
here is.  If somebody could fix it soon, I'd be quite glad: service
for my old Usenet server runs out on the 31st, and their payment
conditions are such that I am not going to do that (it is not the
amount in question, it is basically a password-protected blanket
permission to my bank account).  I have a substitute, but I really
need to get this to work.

Thanks a lot.