Re: strange behaviour in one group

[kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann)]

Kester Clegg <kester@RemoveThisBit.cs.york.ac.uk> writes:

> kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> >
>> > ("nnml+private:private" 3
>> >  ((1 . 714))
>> 
>> This means that you have read articles 1 through 714, I think.
>
> OK, so as there are no articles remaining in that group, this is wrong?

This is unclear to me.  Hm.  It could be right.  If you copy a new
message to that group, with `B c', say, does it then get numbered
715?  If this is the case, then all's well, I think.

> [...]
>
>> Maybe the 714 comes from the .marks file, if there is one.
>
> No, I don't have one.  But this means it comes from somewhere else, I
> guess.  As I said, it keeps resetting that figure, even if you change
> it, so somewhere there must a record of something that has got
> corrupted.  The .newsrc.eld I guess, but I'm a bit nervous of editing
> that. 

Yeah.  But you could try M-x gnus-group-clear-data RET.  That might
do something useful without requiring to edit the file.
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