Re: What to do when Article numbers are unreliable?

[Frank Schmitt]

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> with my current news provider, it appears like I get one of a bunch of
> news servers on each connection, and the relation between article
> numbers and articles is not kept.  That means that whenever I type ^
> in order to go up in a thread which I have read before, I get an
> "article has been cancelled or expired" message.  A nuisance.  The
> same happens when trying to access old articles.
>
> Is there a possibility to forget the "article id"-"article number"
> correlation whenever the connection to the server closes?

I don't think so. Gnus uses article numbers for remembering which
articles you've read, not Message-IDs.

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