Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 00:21:23 -0500
Message-Id: <9603280521.AA09780@dandelion-patch.MIT.EDU>
From: Greg Stark <gsstark@MIT.EDU>
To: ding-users@MIT.EDU
Subject: known bugs in the installed version of September Gnus
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Xref: fierce-bad-rabbit.MIT.EDU archive.ding-users:4


Two bugs that have been plaguing MIT users of Sept. Gnus that 
have yet to be tracked down and exterminated are:

1) losing all your ticks in an nnml group

I have no idea what triggers this, it's happened to me, Sam, and a couple
people on the mailing list. This is especially dangerous if you use
total-expire (as i do) since the next time expiry runs it will happily expire
any older mail you were saving from expiry using ticks.

2) having two mail messages concatenated together in a mail message.

Typically a series of messages have a random second message attached,
the appended messages show up a second time in it's proper place. 

There's a spurious Babyl seperator between the messages that includes a ^L
so Gnus does it's "Next Page..." "Previous Page..." magic.  It's easy to miss
the second article because of this, but i don't think it's ever happened
without the second one showing up again on it's own.

Keep an eye out for these, if you can help track them down send them in with
M-x gnus-bug.  keeping nnmail-delete-incoming set to nil would help.

greg