Re: Weird number of messages on server

[Mark T.B. Carroll]

giglio robbo' d'acciaio <daniele@mother.nostromo.wy> writes:
(snip)
> 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.

I sometimes see something similar - see my report at
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=393546

I find that removing all mention of the afflicted groups from Gnus'
files, then resubscribing, etc. fixes the problem when it happens.

-- Mark