Re: Weird number of messages on server

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Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On 27 Jan 2007, daniele@mother.nostromo.wy wrote:
>
>> Well, I did as you suggested me but the result doesn't satisfy me yet. When
>> I finally enter in the summary buffer it's empty but the cached articles.
>>
>> What's strange is that the problem regards only few groups.
>
> Just because the NNTP server reports X articles "from the start of
> time" essentially, doesn't mean that many are available.  Just catchup
> to the present, and you'll be fine.

It's not so simple. I had already tried this, and that's what I get: I catch
up all the article in that groups, so the buffer tells me that there are zero
unread articles, then when I try to enter that group Gnus reads from the nntp
server the number of articles present and again returns me that huge amount.
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