Subject: bug#9243: 24.0.50; Gnus keeps seeing 101 unread spam

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:12:15 -0400

> Discrepancies in NNTP groups are to be expected.  NNTP just reports
> high/low article numbers, and spam removal bots may remove articles.  So
> Gnus may believe that there are 20 new articles in the group, but upon
> entering the group, half may already be gone.

I know that.  But what I'm describing is different:
- `g' tells me N unread articles
- then RET enters the group to discover there aren't any unread article
- so I exit and hit `g' again
- at which point Gnus tells me again that there are N (same N as before)
  unread articles.

        Stefan