"StainlessSteelRat" wrote in message

Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE wrote:
The unread message count that you see before entering a group is only
an estimate based on the message IDs. It will be thrown off by any
unused IDs.

What I find happens is that messages aren't being downloaded, so the
unread count is correct but the messages don't appear. This has
happened two or three times before over the last few years, on
different news servers, so I'm inclined to think there's some long
term bug here.

Tools | Options | Read
Uncheck the option to download ### headers at a time. The operation of this
option is flaky.

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