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>>>>> On 27 Aug 1999 19:16:58 +0200, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> said:

Lars> Wes Hardaker <wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu> writes:
>> If its not fixed, it should be pointed out in the manual with extremely 
>> large bold font size=2000 letters.  I'm happy I noticed it when I was
>> operating on a newsgroup and not on a mail folder.

Lars> I don't think it can happen on mail groups.  Well, it can happen on
Lars> nnimap groups, but not on the ones that store mail locally.

Which is where I read mail.

>> The correct solution would be to not catch up articles that aren't
>> shown in the summary buffer (ie, if the # unread was 20 and the agent
>> had only information on 15 of them, then after catchup and exit of
>> those 15 the # unread should drop to 5 not 0).

Lars> Yes.  But if the articles really were cancelled?  How is Gnus to know
Lars> the difference?

Hmm.   Good point.

(Of course I *think* I know what we were talking about here...  The
original thread has fallen beyond my expirory time)

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